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.
Vittoria Colonna & Lucrezia Marinella
Who Is Mary? [PDF ebook]
Three Early Modern Women on the Idea of the Virgin Mary
Who Is Mary? [PDF ebook]
Three Early Modern Women on the Idea of the Virgin Mary
购买此电子书可免费获赠一本!
语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● ISBN 9780226113975 ● 翻译者 Susan Haskins ● 出版者 University of Chicago Press ● 发布时间 2010 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5658795 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
需要具备DRM功能的电子书阅读器