TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ihnat,Kati
TI  - Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews: Devotion to the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Norman England 
SN  - 9780691169538
AV  - BT652.E54 I36 2018
U1  - 232.91094209021 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abraham
KW  - Anglo-Norman England
KW  - Eadmer
KW  - Immaculate Conception
KW  - Incarnation
KW  - Jews
KW  - Lydda
KW  - Marian cult
KW  - Mary
KW  - Theodore
KW  - Theophilus
KW  - Toulouse
KW  - bodily Assumption
KW  - conversion
KW  - devotion
KW  - feast
KW  - hagiographies
KW  - liturgy
KW  - mass
KW  - miracle story
KW  - miracle
KW  - miracles
KW  - monks
KW  - office
KW  - prayer
KW  - salvation
KW  - sermon
KW  - theology
KW  - treatises
KW  - veneration
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Praising Mary --; Chapter 2. Understanding Mary --; Chapter 3. Hagiographies of Mary --; Chapter 4 Enemies of Mary --; Conclusion --; Notes --; References --; Index --; Index of Manuscripts; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews explores a key moment in the rise of the cult of the Virgin Mary and the way the Jews became central to her story. Benedictine monks in England at the turn of the twelfth century developed many innovative ways to venerate Mary as the most powerful saintly intercessor. They sought her mercy on a weekly and daily basis with extensive liturgical practices, commemorated additional moments of her life on special feast days, and praised her above all other human beings with new doctrines that claimed her Immaculate Conception and bodily Assumption. They also collected hundreds of stories about the miracles Mary performed for her followers in what became one of the most popular devotional literary genres of the Middle Ages.In all these sources, but especially the miracle stories, the figure of the Jew appears in an important role as Mary's enemy. Drawing from theological and legendary traditions dating back to early Christianity, monks revived the idea that Jews violently opposed the virgin mother of God; the goal of the monks was to contrast the veneration they thought Mary deserved with the resistance of the Jews. Kati Ihnat argues that the imagined antagonism of the Jews toward Mary came to serve an essential purpose in encouraging Christian devotion to her as merciful mother and heavenly Queen.Through an examination of miracles, sermons, liturgy, and theology, Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews reveals how English monks helped to establish an enduring rivalry between Mary and the Jews, in consolidating her as the most popular saint of the Middle Ages and in making devotion to her a foundational marker of Christian identity
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