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<journal-id>1646-740X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medievalista]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Medievalista]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1646-740X</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1646-740X2025000200296</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.34619/eexe-nixx</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Robin Hood and Maiden Mary]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[Robin dos Bosques e a Virgem Maria]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Alarcão]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Miguel]]></given-names>
</name>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Lisboa ]]></addr-line>
<country>Portugal</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>38</numero>
<fpage>296</fpage>
<lpage>309</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1646-740X2025000200296&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1646-740X2025000200296&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1646-740X2025000200296&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract As well as a Christian name, &#8220;Marian&#8221; is an adjective related to the cult of, and devotion to, Saint Mary, Herself traditionally associated with the month of May, which includes Mother&#8217;s Day. Mary&#8217;s own status as a &#8216;spiritual mother&#8217; for Catholic and - up to the 16th century Reformation(s) - Christian believers, as well as a model for all women, a paradigm of virtue and perfection and thus the opposite of everything that Eve stood for in medieval theological thought and exegesis, account for what Derek Pearsall has suggestively called &#8220;Mariolatry&#8221;. This Marian devotion, patent in many poems of the 14th and 15th centuries, left powerful traces in the oldest surviving Robin Hood ballads, a fact which inspired my title: &#8220;Robin Hood and Maiden Mary&#8221;, rather than the phonetically akin, and more predictable one, &#8220;Robin Hood and Maid Marian&#8221;.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Resumo Além de um nome próprio, &#8220;Marian&#8221; é um adjetivo referente ao culto da, e à devoção a, Santa Maria, Ela própria tradicionalmente associada ao mês de Maio, que inclui o Dia da Mãe. O estatuto de Maria como &#8216;mãe espiritual&#8217; para os crentes católicos e - até à(s) Reforma(s) do século XVI - cristãos, assim como um modelo para todas as mulheres, um paradigma de virtude e perfeição e, por conseguinte, o oposto de tudo o que Eva representava no pensamento e na exegese teológicos medievais explicam aquilo a que Derek Pearsall sugestivamente chamou &#8220;Mariolatria&#8221;. Esta devoção mariana, patente em inúmeros poemas dos séculos XIV e XV, deixou marcas poderosas nas mais antigas baladas sobreviventes sobre Robin dos Bosques, facto que inspirou o meu título: &#8220;Robin dos Bosques e a Virgem Maria&#8221;, em vez do foneticamente similar, e mais previsível, &#8220;Robin dos Bosques e Maid Marian&#8221;.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Robin Hood]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Maiden Mary]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Marian cult]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Maid Marian]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[English ballads]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Robin dos Bosques]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Virgem Maria]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[culto mariano]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Maid Marian]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Baladas inglesas]]></kwd>
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