Scholastic theologians made the Virgin Mary increasingly perfect over the Middle Ages in Europe.
This Element deploys.
The shame still stands to this day, although in secularised mutated forms.
The Virgin was put to use as a shaming technology, one that silenced and effaced women\'s affective lives.
This work offers an implicit theory of the utility and feelings of women in a Christian salvationary economy.
Mary became stainless, offering an impossible but ideologically useful vision of womanhood.
Scholastic theologians made the Virgin Mary increasingly perfect over the Middle Ages in Europe