Cult of St. Anne in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Dr Jennifer Welsh received her M.A. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2000, and her M.A. and PhD in History from Duke University in 2004 and 2009. Her dissertation dealt with the cult of St. Anne in late medieval and early modern Europe. After four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, she started working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Lindenwood-University Belleville in Belleville, IL in August of 2014. This is her first book.

List of contents

Introduction

1. Constructing St. Anne

2. Relics, Images, and Miracles: Encountering St. Anne

3. Anne, Mother of Mothers

4. Sacred and Secular Economies

5. From Holy Kinship to ‘Holy Household’

6. Decline, Transformation, and Revival

7. St. Anne’s Baroque Revival

Epilogue

About the author

Dr Jennifer Welsh received her M.A. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2000, and her M.A. and PhD in History from Duke University in 2004 and 2009. Her dissertation dealt with the cult of St. Anne in late medieval and early modern Europe. After four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, she started working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Lindenwood-University Belleville in Belleville, IL in August of 2014.

Summary

Emerging in the early centuries of Christianity, St. Anne - mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus - become an increasingly popular figure in late medieval northern Europe, standing at the centre of an elaborately-constructed extended holy family. Despite this popularity, and the ideal model of female lay piety she represented, St Anne’s absenc

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Welsh, Jennifer (Division of Humanities Lindenwood Welsh
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367889876
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88987-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Sanctity in Global Perspective
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Europe, RELIGION / General, European History, RELIGION / Christianity / History, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Western, HISTORY / Women, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Medieval History, Western Europe, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, Church history, History and Archaeology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval