Virgin Whore.

Author / Editor
Solberg, Emma Maggie.

Title
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