Queen of Heaven
The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin in Early Modern English Writing
Seiten
2018
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-10410-8 (ISBN)
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-10410-8 (ISBN)
Grindlay's study of the Virgin Mary affords an insight into England's religious pluralism and how images of Mary became sources of resistance and controversy during the Reformation.
The belief that the Virgin Mary was bodily assumed to be crowned as heaven’s Queen has been celebrated in the liturgy and literature of England since the fifth century. The upheaval of the Reformation brought radical changes in the beliefs surrounding the assumption and coronation, both of which were eliminated from state-approved liturgy.
Queen of Heaven examines canonical as well as obscure images of the Blessed Mother that present fresh evidence of the incompleteness of the English Reformation. Through an analysis of works by writers such as Edmund Spenser, Henry Constable, Sir John Harington, and the writers of the early modern rosary books, which were contraband during the Reformation, Grindlay finds that these images did not simply disappear during this time as lost “Catholic” symbols, but instead became sources of resistance and controversy, reflecting the anxieties triggered by the religious changes of the era.
Grindlay’s study of the Queen of Heaven affords an insight into England’s religious pluralism, revealing a porousness between medieval and early modern perspectives toward the Virgin and dispelling the notion that Catholic and Protestant attitudes on the subject were completely different. Grindlay reveals the extent to which the potent and treasured image of the Queen of Heaven was impossible to extinguish and remained of widespread cultural significance. Queen of Heaven will appeal to an academic audience, but its fresh, uncomplicated style will also engage intelligent, well-informed readers who have an interest in the Virgin Mary and in English Reformation history.
The belief that the Virgin Mary was bodily assumed to be crowned as heaven’s Queen has been celebrated in the liturgy and literature of England since the fifth century. The upheaval of the Reformation brought radical changes in the beliefs surrounding the assumption and coronation, both of which were eliminated from state-approved liturgy.
Queen of Heaven examines canonical as well as obscure images of the Blessed Mother that present fresh evidence of the incompleteness of the English Reformation. Through an analysis of works by writers such as Edmund Spenser, Henry Constable, Sir John Harington, and the writers of the early modern rosary books, which were contraband during the Reformation, Grindlay finds that these images did not simply disappear during this time as lost “Catholic” symbols, but instead became sources of resistance and controversy, reflecting the anxieties triggered by the religious changes of the era.
Grindlay’s study of the Queen of Heaven affords an insight into England’s religious pluralism, revealing a porousness between medieval and early modern perspectives toward the Virgin and dispelling the notion that Catholic and Protestant attitudes on the subject were completely different. Grindlay reveals the extent to which the potent and treasured image of the Queen of Heaven was impossible to extinguish and remained of widespread cultural significance. Queen of Heaven will appeal to an academic audience, but its fresh, uncomplicated style will also engage intelligent, well-informed readers who have an interest in the Virgin Mary and in English Reformation history.
Lilla Grindlay is the head of the English faculty at Sutton Valence School in Kent, England.
Acknowledgements
Notes on the text
Introduction: The Vanishing Virgin?
1. The Virgin’s Assumption and Coronation through the Ages
Part 1. “Some out of Vanity Will Call Her the Queene of Heaven”
2. The Queen of Heaven in Protestant Religious Discourse
3. Sham Queens of Heaven: Iconoclasm and the Virgin Mary
Part 2. Voices from the Shadows
4. The Virgin Mary and the Godly Protestant Woman
5. The Queen of Heaven and the Sonnet Mistress: the Sacred and Secular Poems of Henry Constable
6. A Garland of Aves: The Queen of Heaven and the Rosary
7. The Assumption and Coronation in the Poetry of Robert Southwell
Epilogue
Bibliography
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.09.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern |
Zusatzinfo | 1 Halftones, unspecified |
Verlagsort | Notre Dame IN |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 461 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-268-10410-7 / 0268104107 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-268-10410-8 / 9780268104108 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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