1st Edition
Emotion and Devotion The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures
By Miri Rubin
Copyright 2009
130 Pages
by
Central European University Press
In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, altarpieces and sermons – a wide range of sources from many European regions – are made to reveal the... Read more
Preface, Chapter 1. The Global “Middle Ages” Chapter 2. Mary, and Others Chapter 3. Emotions and Selves, Index.
Biography
Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London.
