Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 9148
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Ashley , Kathleen.
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  • Title: Image and Ideology: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Drama and Narrative [The cult of Saint Anne offered a means of performing meaning(s). The Huy Nativity Play has Anne and other kin visit Mary and the infant Jesus, gazing adoringly at the baby as he gazes back. In the N-Town Mary Play, Anne is the lynchpin of the Holy Kinship, mediating between marriage and ideas of chastity. The Digby Candelmas Play was enacted on Saint Anne's Day. It shows role reversal, including a soldier being beaten with spindles for his role in the Massacre of the Innocents. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society.  Edited by Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn.  The University of Georgia Press, 1990.  Pages 111 - 130.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Anne, Mother of the Virgin, Saint Digby Candlemas Play Gaze Holy Kinship Huy Nativity Play Immaculate Conception Joachim, Father of the Virgin, Saint Mary, Virgin, Saint N-Town Plays Trinubium Annae (Three Marriages of Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mar
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  • Century: 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Southern Maine
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  • Year of Publication: 1990.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0820312622