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Subject: Re: [M-R] jesus' great grandmother
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Richard Copsey O.Carm.
I am not exactly a new member of Medieval Religion but rather a lost sheep
returning to the fold after a number of years away. I am a Carmelite friar
with a special interest in the medieval history of the mendicant orders,
especially my own. Also, because of his links with the Carmelites, I have
worked a lot on the writings of John Bale and especially unpublished early
notebooks.
I appreciated the reference to Catherine Lawler's article on Mary's
grandmother and have just read it. It is certainly a well researched paper.
However, as she points out, this legend of Ismeria as the grandmother of
Mary is a local Florentine variant on the ancestory of Mary.
The more generally accepted legend was that Mary's grandmother was
Emerenciana and that Ismeria (or Ysmeria) was the grandmother of John the
Baptist. There are many surviving early lives of St Anne which contain
accounts of her childhood and her parents. These can be linked with the
increasing devotion to St Anne in the Low Countries in the 15th century.
There are some beautiful Flemish paintings illustrating the life of St Anne
preserved in the City Art Gallery in Frankfurt which came from the Carmelite
church there. One of them has an ancestral tree of St Anne which contains
both Emerenciana and Ysmeria.
Richard
On 12 December 2010 19:53, eliana corbari <
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Dear Colleagues
>
> Excellent article on Mary's grandmother, perhaps of particular interest in
> the season of the nativity
>
>
http://news.discovery.com/history/jesus-great-grandmother.html
>
> Best wishes
>
> Eliana
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