Who Is Mary? Who Is Mary?
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe

Who Is Mary‪?‬

Three Early Modern Women on the Idea of the Virgin Mary

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Descripción editorial

For women of the Italian Renaissance, the Virgin Mary was one of the most important role models. Who Is Mary? presents devotional works written by three women better known for their secular writings: Vittoria Colonna, famed for her Petrarchan lyric verse; Chiara Matraini, one of the most original poets of her generation; and the wide-ranging, intellectually ambitious polemicist Lucrezia Marinella. At a time when the cult of the Virgin was undergoing a substantial process of redefinition, these texts cast fascinating light on the beliefs  of Catholic women in the Renaissance, and also, in the cases of Matraini and Marinella, on contemporaneous women’s social behavior, prescribed for them by male writers in books on female decorum.  

            Who Is Mary? testifies to the emotional and spiritual relationships that women had with the figure of Mary, whom they were required to emulate as the epitome of femininity. Now available for the first time in English-language translation, these writings suggest new possibilities for women in both religious and civil culture and provide a window to women’s spirituality, concerning the most important icon set before them, as wives, mothers, and Christians.

  Please note: The digital edition does not include 1 of the 10 images that appear in the physical edition.

GÉNERO
No ficción
PUBLICADO
2010
15 de julio
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
312
Páginas
EDITORIAL
University of Chicago Press
VENDEDOR
Chicago Distribution Center
TAMAÑO
5.9
MB

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