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BESPRECHUNGEN Marian collections, whether concerns of law, texts and Jewishness were indeed âspecially related in the English contextsâ (8). An increasingly literate culture and tensions between Christian and Jewish populations were not historical circumstances specific to England. The historical readings sketched here are intriguing possibilities. Boyarin implies, for example, that the redemption of Theophilusâs charter might have been particularly resonant at the moment when an indebted English person might resent Jews as holders of financial bonds. The resemblance is indeed suggestive, but it is a difficult case to prove. This book is, necessarily, a partial study. As Boyarin makes clear, her material is selected from a larger whole: she discusses 33 of the 171 English miracles (14),2 with some examples clearly privileged. Her Afterword invites other scholars to take up aspects of the legends such as gender, reading habits, patronage, illustrations of miracles, the relation between general and local miracles. Still other themes of the miracle stories can be glimpsed in the interstices of this study. Maryâs mercy to the very worst of sinners teaches the power of penitence and confession: an object such as the charter of Theophilus is a concrete sign of that power. Several of
Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie – de Gruyter
Published: Dec 1, 2011
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