, ed. Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky and Gerhard Jaritz. Studies in Medieval History and Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2022, ix, 209 pp., b/w ill.

One of the central aspect of religious life in the European Middle Ages was the veneration of the Virgin Mary. We find countless examples of sculptures, churches, paintings, poems, and other objects, including musical compositions and also forms of dance reflecting this profound worship of the Mother of God. Research has addressed this accordingly already in a flood of relevant studies, and here we face yet another collective effort to probe this issue more deeply or in greater detail, especially examining important cases in eastern and central Europe during the late Middle Ages and the early modern age.