TY - BOOK ID - 118253625 TI - Miracles of the Virgin in medieval England : law and Jewishness in Marian legends PY - 2010 SN - 1280489030 9786613584267 1846158885 1843842408 PB - Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - Mary, KW - Apparitions and miracles KW - History. KW - ʻAdhrāʼ KW - Arogyamata KW - Ārōkkiyamāta KW - Birhen ng mga Dukha KW - Blessed Lady KW - Blessed Mother KW - Blessed Virgin Mary, KW - Hagnē Theotokos KW - Madonna, The KW - Majka Isusova KW - Mama Mary KW - Mare de Déu KW - Maria, KW - Mariam Astuatsatsin, KW - Marie, KW - Marie Théotokos KW - Marii︠a︡, KW - Maryam, KW - Maryja, KW - Meryem Ana, KW - Miryam, KW - Mother of God KW - Muíre, KW - Nossa Senhora KW - Our Lady KW - Our Lady of Emmitsburg KW - Our Lady of Good Health KW - Our Lady of Sorrows KW - Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament KW - Qiddīsah Maryam KW - Theotokos KW - Vierge Marie, KW - Virgen María, KW - Virgin Mary, KW - Virgin of the Poor KW - Ynang Maria, KW - مريم KW - مريم العذراء KW - 성모마리아 KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. KW - Christianity. KW - Devil. KW - Virgin Mary. KW - hagiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118253625 AB - Legendary accounts of the Virgin Mary's intercession were widely circulated throughout the middle ages, borrowing heavily, as in hagiography generally, from folktale and other motifs; she is represented in a number of different, often surprising, ways, rarely as the meek and mild mother of Christ, but as bookish, fierce, and capricious, amongst other attributes. This is the first full-length study of their place in specifically English medieval literary and cultural history. While the English circulation of vernacular Miracles of the Virgin is markedly different from continental examples, this book shows how difference and miscellaneity can reveal important developments within an unwieldy genre. The author argues that English miracles in particular were influenced by medieval England's troubled history with its Jewish population and the rapid thirteenth-century codification of English law, so that Mary frequently becomes a figure with special dominion over Jews, text, and legal problems. The shifting codicological and historical contexts of these texts make it clear that the paradoxical sign `Mary' could signify in both surprisingly different and surprisingly consistent ways, rendering Mary both mediatrix and legislatrix. ER -