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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture It always evokes for me the Demeter (mother)-Persephone (daughter) & small boy configuration, such as http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/7/U/6/2/DemeterTriptolemusPersephoneFrieze.jpg though I don't for a minute think that was in the mind of those who produced the image. I suspect that St. Paul would be totally baffled by most accepted church images. DW Ms B M Cook wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > I too would like to get back to St Anne .... > > I have no problem with images of St Anne and the BVM as a (young) > adult woman, with or without the Christ Child. > > I have no problem with the image of St Anne teaching the BVM to read - > indeed that may have something to say about the transmission of female > literacy in upper class households ... > > What does bother / intrigue / puzzle me is the St Anne Trinitaire in > its most extreme form: as the large Mother with the BVM and the Christ > Child seemingly equal in size (small) sitting in her lap. > > There is also a kind of sub-category where the BVM is a child but a > kind of Big Sister to the Christ Child, definitely a pre-pubescent girl. > > This seems distinctly un-Christian to me. > > Is there any pagan image / legend which this could be a roughly > baptized version of ? > > Mother Earth and a male and female offspring of some sort ? Classical > ? Celtic ? Indo-European ????? > > Any ideas ? > > > I have quite a collection of these images from an exhibition catalogue > from Nantes, Brittany in 1966. > > Brenda. > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html