NP very misc...something relevant to Henry Adams, at least,

[Mark Kohut]

and then, maybe, to TRP?


"Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England" offers a new approach 
to evaluating the psychological 'loss' of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation 
England by illustrating how, in the wake of Mary's demotion, re-inscriptions of 
her roles and meanings only proliferated, seizing hold of national imagination 
and resulting in new configurations of masculinity.