Emotion and Devotion
Abstract
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 creativity and richness which they elicited in medieval people, women and men, clergy and laity, people of...
Keywords
Christian culture; medieval studies; religious life and customs; cultural history; religious cultures; religious texts; Western EuropeISBN
9786155211744, 9789639776364Publisher
Central European University PressPublisher website
http://books.openedition.org/ceup/Publication date and place
2009Classification
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500