Devotion to St Anne tends to be late medieval rather than post-Tridentine
and is associated with the popularisation of the doctrine of the Immaculate
Conception. In fact I have a feeling the Catholic church of the
Counter-Reformation tended to downplay her. Sources for her life are all
apocryphal - the Protevangelium of James, the Gospel According to the
Pseudo-Matthew and later developments of these in De Voragine's Golden
Legend. There is a good summary of current research in Ashley, Kathleen,
and Pamela Sheingorn, 1990. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in
Late Medieval Society. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press .
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray
Department of Humanities and Science
UWCN
'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'
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