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Late Antique Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning: Allotting the Scarlet and the Purple
In Late Antique Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning: allotting the scarlet and the purple, Catherine Gines Taylor traces the iconography and assimilation of the spinning motif from antiquity into early Christian representation of the Annunciation.
256 pages, ebook
Published March 22, 2018
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September 27, 2019
A remarkable book, but note that it was written by a specialist for specialists.
The author intervenes into centuries of scholarship and discussion about the Virgin Mary. She argues that to early Christians, and especially Christian women, Mary was an exemplary paragon of womanly virtue, not an ethereal spotless ascetic, but a woman of strength, industry, and everyday devotion.
The author intervenes into centuries of scholarship and discussion about the Virgin Mary. She argues that to early Christians, and especially Christian women, Mary was an exemplary paragon of womanly virtue, not an ethereal spotless ascetic, but a woman of strength, industry, and everyday devotion.
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