Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts
- Author / Editor
- Reed, Teresa P.
Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts
- Published
- Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- 171 pp.
- Series
- Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages.
- Description
- Examines allusions to the Virgin Mary in connection to five literary characters: Chaucer's Constance and Wife of Bath, the medical woman of the English "Trotula," Saint Margaret of Antioch, and the "Pearl" maiden. Chapter 1 focuses on parallels between Constance and Mary in relation to law and to death that is not realized. Chapter 2 argues that the Wife of Bath and Mary reflect each other in an inverse relationship through narrative techniques and motifs. Chaucerian works discussed include MLT, WBPT, and ABC. Bibliography and index.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- ABC