Virgin Whore.
- Author / Editor
- Solberg, Emma Maggie.
Virgin Whore.
- Published
- Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- xi, 275 pp.
- Description
- Studies the complicated sexuality of the Virgin Mary in late medieval English literature, exploring scriptural and apocryphal backgrounds; visual imagery; and dramatic, narrative, and lyrical texts. Includes comments on wives' secrets and the Annunciation material in MilT, and on the adaptation of the "Parliament of Heaven" motif in MerT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Miller and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale