medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In a message dated 15/05/2006 23:41:47 GMT Daylight Time,
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<<As for the "big girl", Mary is interesting as the Theotokos, so she has
to be already -- or soon -- a mother.
Ann is the external part of some theological russian dolls (poupées russes),
where Jesus is in the most inside.>>
Was it not accepted for some time (my locus here is the eighteenth century,
but it feels far older) that females are born with all their successive
generations within them? So that, for example, Eve contained us all (except
presumably not Jesus --or perhaps so?), and Mary contained all of her descendants
(I refrain from commenting on how many that might be). For artistic
purposes, Russian dolls seem a good metaphor (if I have remembered this concept
correctly).
A book which discussed this was Clara Pinto-Correia's /The Ovary of Eve: Egg
and Sperm and Preformation/. I only read a review of it, in the London
Review of Books in 1998, and it is only because I had a letter published about
the review which is online (and which is about something else), that I have been
able to provide this much information...
Susan, distancing herself from her sources...
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