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Teresa P. Reed, Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts.

Publication: Medium Aevum
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Teresa P. Reed, Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts.(Book Review)

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Teresa P. Reed, Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003). xi + 171 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1798-7, 35.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-7083-1797-9, 14.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b).

Shadows of Mary investigates the indebtedness of five Middle English texts to Marian theology in their representations of the feminine. Chapter i reads the figure of Custance (here Constance) in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale as echoing representations of Mary both through her association with legal narrative and through the repeated prefiguring...

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