medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
First, the stern list owner stuff: please don't send attachments to the list, as it often can cause problems. (Strange, but true.)
Second: Maybe I need new glasses, but while Mary is very much a bambina (being in the womb of her mother), she appears to me to be simultaneously very much a big girl. Is it just me? She looks to be a shrunken adult, and not an infant (or younger) at all.
George Ferzoco
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From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture on behalf of virginia hoy
Sent: Mon 2006-05-15 19:09
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Subject: Re: [M-R] The Virgin Mary as a child
What a fascinating picture! If you don't mind a question from a confirmed lurker, why is Mary placed on Anna's side? I very vaguely remember a theory of conception that assigned space in the womb according to the gender of the fetus. Is that what is going on here?
Many thanks,
Ginny Hoy
Ph.D. candidate
English, Rutgers
"denis.hue" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
a little picture of Anna bearing Immaculate Mary in her womb: you can see rays and flames around her. It is a special norman devotion, in the Beaux Arts Museum of Rouen. Is it possible to have a "more bambina representation"?
I've made a small jpeg file. If someone wishes a more precise one, I'll send it off list.
Amitiés,
Denis
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N'en sai plus dire
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Denis Hüe,
responsable du Master Lettres Langues Communication
Centre d'Etude des Textes Médiévaux, (CETM-CELAM)
Université de Haute Bretagne
http://www.uhb.fr/alc/medieval
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From: Ann Ball
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Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 5:13 PM
Subject: [M-R] The Virgin Mary as a child
I am now beginning to do some research on the devotion to Mary as a child throughout the world. I hope eventually to get a book contract on it. I will be looking in particular for places where the devotion has entered the sphere of popular religion such as the Maria Bambina in Italy and the Divina Infantita in Mexico. And of course any place a statue of her has become "miraculous" or a center of a cult. In the history of the Bambina, you can read it became a custom to give copies as wedding gifts and thus, plus the religious order who has custody of her, the devotion began to spread. The one in Mexico comes from some little known apparitions around the mid 1800s. I am certain the Bambina was not the first place. I do know of some medieval apparitions of Mary as a child in Spain. And there is a pocket of devotion to her as a child in Spain and in Chili. If anyone on this list has a name,
city, statue, apparition, etc. to suggest that I research, I would be most grateful for the leads.
Father Damian and I had a field day researching the devotion to the Holy Child Jesus! That little Holy Boy showed up all over the world and in some amusing and adorable images. Our book about this won't be out until next fall, although I have a few of the images on my website, annball.com. If anyone on this list is interested in a particular image of the Christ Child or the history, etc. I'll be more than happy to send them something -- just email me offlist at [log in to unmask]
Blessings and happy Mother's Day to those moms on this list.
Ann
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