John Shinners wrote:
>Another avenue for popularizing the details of Mary's death and assumption in
the West was the visions of Elizabeth of Schonau c. 1128-64), a younger friend
of Hildegard of B. ....Elizabeth's account passed pretty much verbatim into
Jacob of Voragine's account of the Assumption in his _Golden Legend_, which,
of course, greatly enhanced its popularity.
curiously (or maybe not) she corresponds more or less to the revival of
interest in the theme in monumental art; if i recall it is rather rare in the
West until the 2nd half of the 12th c., when it seems to have been something
of a favorite of sculptors of the "Gothic" sequence, beginning(?) with Senlis
(c. 1160??) and on to Strassbourg (1230???), with quite a few in between, the
memory of which has faded, as is their wont.
best from here,
christopher
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