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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/156852908X388304 Religion and the Arts 13 (2009) 146–158 www.brill.nl/rart RELIGION and the ARTS Book Reviews Albrecht, Roberta. Th e Virgin Mary as Alchemical and Lullian Reference in Donne . Th e Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture, eds. Phyl- lis Rackin and Carole Levin. Selinsgrove PA and Cranbury NJ: Susque- hanna University Press and Associated University Presses, 2005. Pp. 259 + 21 illustrations. $50.00 cloth. I n her “Introduction: Th eological Alchemy” Roberta Albrecht proposes that Donne’s Catholic background infl uences him to employ “codes,” especially from alchemy, in his poems and sermons. Of special importance are those that apply to the Virgin Mary. She sees Donne substituting a form of Mary that operated within a Protestant framework and that allowed Christians not Roman Catholic to “worship” Mary in another form. Donne believes that names express the essential nature of things and agrees with Ramon Lull that names instruct and express essences. Donne had inherited many images of Mary and employs some in his poems and sermons. Th roughout his life he proved her value. In the fi rst chapter, Albrecht says that the Virgin suckling her child was an important
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Published: Jan 1, 2009
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