Georgiana Donavin, professor of English at Westminster College, is the author of Incest Narratives and the Structure of Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' and other essays on John Gower's poetry. Along with Eve Salisbury and Merrall L. Price, she co-edited Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts.
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"A provocative and beautifully written study of the Virgin Mary as queen of the language arts and muse of academic and lyric, Latin and vernacular poetry and song. True to her example, Georgiana Donavin masterfully restores the Mother of the Word to the intellectual throne from which early modern and modern critiques have cast her down. Scribit Mater challenges literary critics and historians of devotion alike to revise their understanding of the Virgin and with it their very definitions of education and art."--Rachel Fulton Brown, Associate Professor of History, The University of Chicago "We have always known that the Virgin Mary was invoked for assistance in all things, including study and scholarship, because of her powerful role as intercessor with her Son; but Georgiana Donavin reveals here in fascinating detail the tradition that Mary herself was considered to be trained and expert in the liberal arts, a manifestation of which is her glorious Magnificat."--H. A. Kelly, Emerit Distinguished Professor of English, UCLA