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
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