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- Title
THE BLESSED VIRGIN'S MILK POWDERIZED.
- Authors
Real, Hermann J.; Vienken, Heinz J.
- Abstract
The article states that among Lord Peter's many wild projects with which English satirist Jonathan Swift lambasted "the ridiculous inventions of popery" in Section IV of the book A Tale of a Tub is a cow, which gave as much milk at a meal, as would fill three thousand Churches. In a note appended to the fifth edition of the Tale in 1710, the miraculous cow is said to signify the "ridiculous multiplying of the Virgin Mary's milk among the Papists," manifestly an abuse of a relic which was widespread in the Middle Ages and which had increasingly come under attack in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Subjects
RELIGION in literature; TALE of a Tub, A (Book : Swift); MARY, Blessed Virgin, Saint; RELICS; MILK; CATHOLIC Church doctrines; MIDDLE Ages
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1986, Vol 33, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article