The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England

by Mary Clayton

Book Overview

The cult of the Virgin Mary is associated by most medievalists with the twelfth and succeeding centuries. This book, however, provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cult in England from c. 700 to the Conquest. Interest in and devotion to Mary flourished in the late seventh and eighth centuries and, especially, in the period of the Benedictine reform from the mid-tenth century onwards. In this latter period Mary, as patron saint of almost all of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521531152
• ISBN13: 9780521531153
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"