Mary and the Art of Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 023118168X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 656 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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It provides a new methodology for thinking about devotion and prayer; a new appreciation of the scope of and audience for the Hours of the Virgin; a new understanding of how Mary functions theologically and devotionally; and a new reading of sources not previously taken into account. Would you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? In Mary and the Art of Prayer, Rachel Fulton Brown traces the history of the medieval practice of praisingMary through the complex of prayers known as the Hours of the Virgin. It then guides readers in the practice of saying this Office, including its invitatory (Ave Maria), antiphons, psalms, lessons, and prayers. More than just a work of comprehensive historical scholarship, the book asks readers to immerse thems
Fulton Brown highlights thirteenth-century Mariological writings that Graef treats only briefly and dismissively: Conrad of Saxony’s Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis, Richard of Saint-Laurent’s De Laudibus Sanctae Mariae, and the famous Mariale Super Missus Est (until 1952, attributed to Albert the Great). Astell, University of Notre Dame (blurb) . One of the most beautiful, well argued, and exciting pieces of Marian scholarship that I have read. (Sarah Jane Boss, director of the Centre for Marian Studies)Deliberately (and often delightfully) provocative, Rachel Fulton Brown’s book takes on Hilda Graef’s classic Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion (1963-65) as its sparring partner. Countering Graef’s criticisms of these works as “questionable,” “popular,” “unhealthy,” and manifesting “signs of deca
. She is the author of From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200 (2002) and coeditor of History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person (2007), both from Columbia University Press. Rachel Fulton Brown is associate professor of history at the University of Ch