Check the litterature on Trithemius. Along with his advocacy of the
Immaculate Conception, he also advocated devotion to St. Anne.
Tom Izbicki
At 11:49 AM 10/25/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>This one seems to come up roughly once a year! Try trawling through the
>list archive on http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion/
>for ideas. I have found the following to be very useful as basic
>background:
>
>Ashley, Kathleen, and Pamela Sheingorn, 1990. Interpreting Cultural
>Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society. Athens and London: University
>of Georgia Press
>
>Atkinson, C., 1991. The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle
>Ages. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press
>
>Mulder-Bakker, Hanneka, 1995. Sanctity and Motherhood: essays on holy
> mothers in the Middle Ages. New York and London: Garland Publishing.
>
>
>
>Duffy, Eamon, 1992. The Stripping of the Altars. New Haven and London: Yale
> University Press also has some useful references.
>He says a lot about the theme of the Marian trinity, which is a very common
> medieval and even Renaissance image - Michaelangelo did a version of
> it.
>
>
>The theme of the Marian trinity also crops up, I think, in Breeze, Andrew,
>1991. 'Two bardic themes: the Trinity in the Blessed Virgin's Womb and the
>Rain of Folly'. Celtica 22, 1-15.
>
>Maddy
>
>Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
>(Department of Humanities and Science
>UWCN Caerleon Campus
>PO Box 179
>Newport NP18 3YG
>http://www.newport.ac.uk)
>
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