Emotion and Devotion

• Main Author: Miri Rubin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Central European University Press 2009
• Subjects: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Christian culture; medieval studies; religious life and customs; cultural history; religious cultures; religious texts; Western Europe
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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...