Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen : Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary -- Hardback

Hackett, Helen

Palgrave Macmillan（1994/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 商品コード 9780333566640
• DDC分類 942.055

Full Description

Was Elizabeth I worshipped by her subjects? Many twentieth-century scholars have suggested that the Virgin Queen was a cult-figure who replaced the Virgin Mary. But how could this be in a Protestant state officially opposed to idolatry? Helen Hackett examines these issues through readings of a wide variety of Elizabethan texts. She traces some of the cross-currents in Elizabethan culture, and considers both Elizabeth and the Virgin Mary in terms of the history of representations of gender, sexuality and power.

Contents

Abbreviations Acknowledgements A Note on the Text Introduction Before Elizabeth A New Queen 1560-78: The Meanings of Virginity 1578-82: Into Perpetual Virginity 1583-93: Patronage, Prayers and Pilgrimages The 1590s: The Literature of Disillusionment Towards Death, and Beyond It Epilogue: Adulation or Anxiety? Notes Bibliography Index