La Vierge et la bete: Marian iconographies and bestial effigies in nineteenth-century French narratives.(Critical Essay)

From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Although nineteenth-century France is well known to be an age of science, materialism and reason, the same period experienced a powerful Marian revival. The renewed popularity of the Virgin Mary simultaneously influenced and reflected social expectations of women. Between 1830 and 1876, six apparitions of the Virgin Mary were reported in France and all of them eventually won the full approbation of the Catholic Church. The three most influential apparitions occurred in Paris in 1830, in La Salette in 1846 and in Lourdes in 1858. Although representations of women in French ...

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