Sacred Space of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Hispanic Literature

LESLEY TWOMEY is Professor Emerita of Spanish at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsSacred Spaces and Places: Constructing the Virgin Mary in Hispanic LiteratureA Feast of Miracles: Foreign Places, Foreign Spaces in Hispanic Miracle CollectionsHortus conclusus?: Virginity and Fruitful Space in Gonzalo de Berceo's Los Milagros de Nuestra SeñoraHolding and Reflecting the Water of Life in Gonzalo de Berceo's 'fuent': Wellsprings and Fountains as a Figure of the VirginFountains and their Architecture: Situating Fountains in the Poetry of the Marqués de Santillana and Other Fifteenth-Century PoetsThe Temple Gate, the Lions' Den, and the Furnace: Liminal Space in Gonzalo de Berceo's Marian PoetryRe-evaluating the Temple of God, the Tabernacle, the Ark, and the Reliquary in Late-Medieval PoetryHome is where the Heart is: Christ's Dwelling-Place from Gonzalo de Berceo's Loores de Nuestra Señora to the Vita Christi of Isabel de VillenaMary as a Strong Defence: the Protective Space of the Virgin Mary from Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria to Jaume Roig's Siege Engine'Más olías que ambargris': Perfumed Spaces and the Virgin in Fray Ambrosio Montesino's PoetryAfterwordAppendix: Marian Hymns in Hispanic LiturgiesBibliographyIndex

Twomey's readings are illuminating as commentaries on the works under scrutiny and as examples of a creative methodology, an approach that interprets space as a medium of characterization.