Late antique images of the Virgin Annunciate spinning : : allotting the scarlet and the purple / / by Catherine Gines Taylor.

• Superior document: Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity, Volume 11
• VerfasserIn: Gines Taylor, Catherine,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity ; Volume 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 pages).

In Late Antique Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning: allotting the scarlet and the purple , Catherine Gines Taylor traces the way early Christians assimilated the symbolism of spinning into images of the Annunciation. Taylor offers an art historical and interdisciplinary look at the earliest images of Mary spinning, underscoring the iconographic model of idealized matronage consistent with lay piety and the cult of Mary. The personal and domestic nature of this motif is evidence toward popular Mariological devotion that preceded the exclusive, semi-divine presentation of the Theotokos , and stands in contrast with traditional ascetic models for Mary.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Preceding the Ascetic Type: Earliest Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning -- The Roots and Precedents: Lanam Fecit -- The Maiden -- The Matron -- The Household -- Memorial -- The Virgin Annunciate Spinning: A Matronly Model, “In Whom All Opposites are Reconciled” -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.