Devotion to St. Anne in Texts and Images (original) (raw)
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Editors:
- Elena Ene D-Vasilescu
- Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Explores the multifaceted veneration of St. Anne as an educator, a mother, a saint, and a spouse
Examines St. Anne’s cult in areas of Europe that have not been studied before
Brings together contributions from a variety of research fields, including theologians, Byzantinists, and art historians
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St. Anne was popular with representatives of various segments of society – from monks, nuns, members of the clergy, royal patrons, to church-goers of every rank. This book looks into both the public and private worship of this holy woman and brings to the surface some under-exposed aspects of it. It does so through the examination of manuscripts, monumental art, relics, sculpture, and texts of various genres. The contributors employ a historical as well as a theological perspective on how the cult of St. Anne (sometimes also with glimpses concerning that of Joachim) established itself, referring to areas in Europe which are not frequently discussed in English-language scholarship. This new contribution to the field of hagiography will be of interest to academics from a variety of research fields, including theologians, Byzantinists, art and church historians, and historians of a larger scope.
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Editors and Affiliations
Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Elena Ene D-Vasilescu
About the editor
Elena Ene D-Vasilescu is a Research Fellow and Tutor at the University of Oxford, UK. She does research and teaches in Patristics and Byzantine Studies. Her recent publications include, co-edited with Mark Edwards, Visions of God and ideas on deification in Patristics thought (2016), and the articles “Generation (γενεά) in Gregory Nazianzen’s poem _On the Son_” (2017); “Early Christianity about the notion of time and the redemption of the world” (2017), and “Late Developments in Meta-Byzantine Icon-Painting” (2017).
Bibliographic Information
- Book Title: Devotion to St. Anne in Texts and Images
- Book Subtitle: From Byzantium to the Late European Middle Ages
- Editors: Elena Ene D-Vasilescu
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89399-0
- Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
- eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
- Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89398-3Published: 10 July 2018
- eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89399-0Published: 21 June 2018
- Edition Number: 1
- Number of Pages: XVI, 127
- Number of Illustrations: 19 illustrations in colour
- Topics: History of Medieval Europe, History of Religion, Cultural History, Christian Theology, Gender Studies, Religion and Gender