Devotion to St. Anne in Texts and Images From Byzantium to the Late European Middle Ages /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ene D-Vasilescu, Elena (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Europe-History-476-1492.; Religion-History.; Civilization-History.; Theology.; Sociology.; Gender identity-Religious aspects.; History of Medieval Europe.; History of Religion.; Cultural History.; Christian Theology.; Gender Studies.; Religion and Gender.

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 St. An...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The lives of Joachim and Anna depicted in the Church of Humor Monastery, Moldavia (Romania); Adriana Balaban Bara
• Chapter 2: The pleasure of child nursing: St. Anna and the infant Mary in texts and Byzantine art; Elena Ene D-Vasilescu
• Chapter 3: The reception of Saint Anne's cult in Hungarian ecclesiastical environment: her legend in codices; Emoke Nagy
• Chapter 4: The Education of the Virgin: an alternative suggestion concerning its origins; Virginia Nixon.