[PDF.44nn] Mary’s Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe

Mary’s Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe

[PDF.il76] Mary’s Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe

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 | #4564215 in Books |  2013-02-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.64 x6.00l,.76 | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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|| ||“This fascinating book traces the explosive growth of devotion to Saint Anne in the late Middle Ages. Nixon deftly shows how educated clerics promoted Saint Anne in order to exercise control over lay piety for religious, economic, and social ends. The c

Saint Anne, the mother of Mary, is not a biblical figure. She first appears in a second-century apocryphal infancy gospel as part of the story of the savior’s birth and maternal ancestry. Over the ensuing centuries, Anne’s story circulated throughout eastern and western Christendom, but it was not until the late Middle Ages that a cult of Saint Anne gained a firm footing in Europe. Mary’s Mother is about the remarkable rise of Anne as a figu...

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