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Not sure about Salome but wasn't it the 2nd midwife whose hand withered (because she didn't believe in the miracle of the virgin birth) and was healed?
Maddy
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On 29/12/2015 22:15, Genevra Kornbluth wrote:
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Thanks, George!
I'll have to look again at the Protevangelium-- it's been many years since I've read it, and my (obviously hazy) memory said that Salome was the midwife.
best,
Genevra
On 12/29/2015 2:18 PM, Gyorgy Gereby wrote:medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe 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: unsubscribe 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/medieval-religionDear Genevra,Thank you for these wonderful images. A minor remark: on the Carolingian pyxis the woman kneeling in front of the manger of the Christ child is Salome, and not the midwife. She holds out her withered hand following the account of the Protevangelium of James, a wonderful illustration of the influence of the ProtEv. Other examples of the same iconography are on a panel of the Maximian cathedra, on a fresco in Apa Apollo, Bawit, cell LI, north side (seventh c.), at the bottom of an ivory panel of the British Museum, and I think there was another pyxis of very similar design of Syro-Palestinian origin in the British Museum, too (I'll have to find the picture in my scattered archives).Best wishes for the New Year,George
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On 26 December 2015 at 03:28, Genevra Kornbluth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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John, I find the lantern held by Joseph in 'z' particularly appealing!
Does the date you give for 'a' come from Weitzmann, or where? Both the Virgin's body and the shepherd(?) in the hat (lower right) strike me as rather strange.
Some additions:
http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/Nativity.html
all best,
Genevra
On 12/25/2015 7:26 PM, John Dillon wrote:
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A few period-pertinent images of the Nativity of Jesus:
a) as depicted in a seventh-century encaustic icon in the Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai, St. Catherine (South Sinai governorate):
http://tinyurl.com/cf48lpe
z) as portrayed by the workshop of Michael Wolgemut in a panel of the early sixteenth-century polychromed wooden principal altarpiece (completed, 1508) in the Stadtkirche St. Johannes und St. Martin in Schwabach:
http://tinyurl.com/nth3v7n