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Last published 2025
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Mary Beth Long

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Assistant Professor

University of Arkansas primary Ouachita Baptist University

Also affiliated: Animal, Santé, Territoires, Risques et Ecosystèmes (2006); Arkansas Museum of Discovery (2025)

Faculty Researcher

3 h-index 34 pubs 18 cited

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Mary Beth Long's research examines the representation and cultural significance of Marian maternity in late-medieval England. Her work investigates how religious texts and manuscripts, such as the Vernon Manuscript and the "Parson's Tale," portray the Virgin Mary's experience of pregnancy and childbirth. Long's scholarship also connects these medieval representations to broader historical and contemporary discussions about the policing of pregnant bodies, drawing parallels from ancient Greece to post-Roe America. Her recent publications explore the "Birth of Mary's Touch" and the use of penitential manuals during the medieval period. Long's scholarship is marked by a h-index of 3 and 34 total publications with 16 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 3
  • Publications: 34
  • Citations: 18

Selected Publications

  • The Birth of Mary’s Touch in the Vernon Manuscript (2025)
    Exemplaria DOI OpenAlex
  • :<i>Manuals for Penitents in Medieval England: From “Ancrene Wisse” to the “Parson’s Tale.”</i> (2025)
    Speculum DOI OpenAlex
  • :<i>Policing Pregnant Bodies from Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America</i> (2024)
    Sixteenth Century Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • ‘Woful womman, confortlees’ : Failed maternity and maternal grief as feminist issues (2023)
    DOI OpenAlex
  • ‘Woful womman, confortlees’: Failed maternity and maternal grief as feminist issues (2019)
    postmedieval a journal of medieval cultural studies 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • : <i>Fiction and Figuration in High and Late Medieval Literature</i> (2018)
    Renaissance Quarterly DOI OpenAlex
  • Saintly Protection: The Postmortem ‘Mothers’ of Medieval Hagiography (2017)
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  • Anne Bulkeley and her Book: Fashioning Female Piety in Early Tudor England (2013)
    Medieval Feminist Forum DOI OpenAlex
  • A Medieval French Book in an Early Modern English World: Christine de Pisan’s <i>Livre de la Cité des Dames</i> and Women Readers in the Age of Print (2012)
    Literature Compass 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The <i>Life</i> as <i>Vita</i>: Reading <i>The Lady Falkland Her Life</i> as Hagiography (2008)
    English Literary Renaissance 1 citation DOI OpenAlex

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