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Dear Brother Steven, I would second Sherry's recommendation and also suggest the following, which, although predominantly English and late medieval in their focus, might be of interest to your brother. LOUIS, C., ed., The Commonplace Book of Robert Reynes of Acle. An Edition of Tanner MS 407 (New York and London 1980). PARKER, R.E., ed., The Middle English Stanziac Versions of the Life of St Anne (EETS London 1928). BRANDENBARG, T., 'St Anne and her family. The veneration of St Anne in connection with concepts of marriage and family in the early modern period', SION C.H.H. and VAN DER WILDEN, R.M.J., trans, Saints and She-Devils. Images of Women in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (London 1987), 101-128. GIBSON, G.McM., 'Saint Anne and the religion of childbed. Some East Anglian texts and talismans', in ASHLEY, K. and SHEINGORN, P., eds, Interpreting Cultural Symbols - St Anne in late Medieval Society (Athens, Georgia 1990), 95-110. SHEINGORN, P.M., 'The wise mother: The image of St Anne teaching the Virgin Mary', Gesta, 32 (1993), 69-80. DUFFY, E., 'Holy maydens, holy wyfes: The cult of women saints in fifteenth and sixteenth-century England', in Women and the Church, ed.D.Wood, Studies in Church History, 27 (Oxford 1990), 175-96. JAMES, M.R., 'The Salomites', The Journal of Theological Studies, 35 (1934), 287-97. There is also some interesting material in Mirk's Festial, where, as I remember he describes Anna's holy namesakes, including Hannah and Anna the prophetess. Hope this is helpful. Miriam Gill ([log in to unmask]) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%