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The pleasure of child nursing: St. Anne and the infant Mary in texts and Byzantine art
- Abstract:
- After waiting for decades to become a mother there can be no doubt that Anne took great pleasure in bringing her daughter Mary up. The literature and iconography of the Byzantine Middle Ages reflect Anne’s happy and harmonious family life. Little Mary brought many joys to her parents and that becomes obvious from listening to the hymns dedicated to her and to them and from looking at the visual scenes in which she is depicted being milk-fed, caressed as well as taught to walk and read. My chapter is concerned with how Anne’s delight in motherhood is represented in the Byzantine theological, historical, and iconographical sources that considered the act of milk-nursing as pertaining not only to the mundane, but also to the divine realm.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/978-3-319-89399-0_2
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+ Ene Draghici-Vasilescu, E
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- History
- Oxford college:
- Wolfson College
- Role:
- Editor
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Host title:
- Devotion to St. Anne in Texts and Images: From Byzantium to the Late European Middle Ages
- Pages:
- 33-54
- Chapter number:
- 2
- Place of publication:
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-22
- Edition:
- 1
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9783319893990
- ISBN:
- 9783319893983
- Language:
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English
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- Subtype:
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Chapter
- Pubs id:
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2297185
- Local pid:
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pubs:2297185
- Deposit date:
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2025-10-03
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- Copyright holder:
- Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- © 2018 The Author(s).
- Notes:
- Cited in Mills, M.J (2024) Blessed Mary and the Monks of England: Benedictines and Cistercians, 1000–1215. Catholic University of America Press, p.29 at https://www.cuapress.org/9780813238135/blessed-mary-and-the-monks-of-england/
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