Editors:
- 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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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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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