Scholastic Affect : Gender, Maternity and the History of Emotions
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
ISBN-10
1108814263
ISBN-13
9781108814263
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 6th, 2020
Print length
75 Pages
Weight
120 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 22.90 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of religionChristian theologyGender studies: women
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The history of the Virgin Mary in medieval theology is one of an ideologically useful vision of womanhood. This Element deploys the intellectual history of medieval thought to map the moves made in codifying Mary's perfection. It then uses contemporary gender and affect theory, mapping the emotional regimes of the medieval past upon the present.
Scholastic theologians made the Virgin Mary increasingly perfect over the Middle Ages in Europe. Mary became stainless, offering an impossible but ideologically useful vision of womanhood. This work offers an implicit theory of the utility and feelings of women in a Christian salvationary economy. The Virgin was put to use as a shaming technology, one that silenced and effaced women''s affective lives. The shame still stands to this day, although in secularised mutated forms. This Element deploys the intellectual history of medieval thought to map the moves made in codifying Mary''s perfection. It then uses contemporary gender and affect theory to consider the implications of Mary''s perfection within modernity, mapping the emotional regimes of the medieval past upon the present.
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