Stories of the rose : the making of the rosary in the Middle Ages /

"Stories of the Rose presents a compelling and readable history of the rosary in its formative years. It explores the many spiritual, literary, and artistic dimensions of the rosary and explains how and why it became so popular on the eve of the Protestant Reformation."

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Autor Principal: Winston-Allen, Anne, 1942- (Author)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:English
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1997]
Subjects:
Rosary > History.
Confraternities > Germany > Cologne.
Spirituality > Christianity > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Cologne (Germany) > Religious life and customs.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Early rosaries
  • 2. The picture text and its "readers"
  • 3. One for sorrow, two for joy : confraternity writings, the fifteen mysteries, and the observant reform
  • 4. Secular love gardens, Marian iconography, and the names of the rose
  • 5. Popular promotion and reception
  • 6. Rosaries and the language of spirituality.

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