The Cult of St. Anne in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Jennifer Welsh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-88987-6 (ISBN)

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Emerging in the early centuries of Christianity, St. Anne - mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus - become an increasingly popular figure in late medieval northern Europe, standing at the centre of an elaborately-constructed extended holy family. Despite this popularity, and the ideal model of female lay piety she represented, St Anne’s absenc

Dr Jennifer Welsh received her M.A. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2000, and her M.A. and PhD in History from Duke University in 2004 and 2009. Her dissertation dealt with the cult of St. Anne in late medieval and early modern Europe. After four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, she started working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Lindenwood-University Belleville in Belleville, IL in August of 2014. This is her first book.

Introduction

1. Constructing St. Anne

2. Relics, Images, and Miracles: Encountering St. Anne

3. Anne, Mother of Mothers

4. Sacred and Secular Economies

5. From Holy Kinship to ‘Holy Household’

6. Decline, Transformation, and Revival

7. St. Anne’s Baroque Revival

Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	Sanctity in Global Perspective
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-367-88987-0 / 0367889870
ISBN-13	978-0-367-88987-6 / 9780367889876
Zustand	Neuware