Description:
An examination of typology about place in relation to the Virgin Mary.

This book takes a fresh look at some of the seemingly tired images of the Virgin Mary across the medieval and early Golden Age period in Hispanic literatures. It explores the Virgin as a gateway and as a Temple, as a garden and asa fountain, as a scented space, and as a strong defensive place (fortress or castle wall). It also explores her as a home and as a nuptial bedchamber, and sets these images in the context of known liturgical usage in medieval andearly modern Spain.


CONTENTS:

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Sacred Spaces and Places: Constructing the Virgin Mary in Hispanic Literature

A Feast of Miracles: Foreign Places, Foreign Spaces in Hispanic Miracle Collections

Hortus conclusus?: Virginity and Fruitful Space in Gonzalo de Berceo’s Los Milagros de Nuestra Señora

Holding and Reflecting the Water of Life in Gonzalo de Berceo’s ‘fuent’: Wellsprings and Fountains as a Figure of the Virgin

Fountains and their Architecture: Situating Fountains in the Poetry of the Marqués de Santillana and Other Fifteenth-Century Poets

The Temple Gate, the Lions’ Den, and the Furnace: Liminal Space in Gonzalo de Berceo’s Marian Poetry

Re-evaluating the Temple of God, the Tabernacle, the Ark, and the Reliquary in Late-Medieval Poetry

Home is where the Heart is: Christ’s Dwelling-Place from Gonzalo de Berceo’s Loores de Nuestra Señora to the Vita Christi of Isabel de Villena

Mary as a Strong Defence: the Protective Space of the Virgin Mary from Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria to Jaume Roig’s Siege Engine

‘Más olías que ambargris’: Perfumed Spaces and the Virgin in Fray Ambrosio Montesino’s Poetry
Afterword

Appendix: Marian Hymns in Hispanic Liturgies

Bibliography

Index