Rachel Fulton Brown: 2 books
From Judgment to Passion
Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes...
Mary and the Art of Prayer
The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Would you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? In Mary and the Art of Prayer, Rachel Fulton Brown traces the history of the medieval practice of praising Mary through the complex of prayers known as the Hours of the Virgin. More than just a work of comprehensive historical scholarship,...