Dear Maddy, thank you for your erudite reply. I don't have access to the
documents you mention and wonder if you know how I can see them or a summary
thereof. Best wishes, Gordon T
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Subject: St Anne
> 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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