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<p>Chapter 1: The lives of Joachim and Anna depicted in the Church of Humor Monastery, Moldavia (Romania); Adriana Balaban Bara.- Chapter 2: The pleasure of child nursing: St. Anna and the infant Mary in texts and Byzantine art; Elena Ene D-Vasilescu.- Chapter 3: The reception of Saint Anne’s cult in Hungarian ecclesiastical environment: her legend in codices; Emoke Nagy.- Chapter 4: The Education of the Virgin: an alternative suggestion concerning its origins; Virginia Nixon.<br></p>

<p>Elena Ene D-Vasilescu is a Research Fellow and Tutor at the University of Oxford, UK. She does research and teaches in Patristics and Byzantine Studies. Her recent publications include, co-edited with Mark Edwards, <i>Visions of God and ideas on deification in Patristics thought </i>(2016), and the articles “Generation (γενεά) in Gregory Nazianzen’s poem <i>On the Son</i>” (2017); “Early Christianity about the notion of time and the redemption of the world” (2017), and “Late Developments in Meta-Byzantine Icon-Painting” (2017).<i></i></p>

<p>St. Anne was popular with representatives of various segments of society – from monks, nuns, members of the clergy, royal patrons, to church-goers of every rank. This book looks into both the public and private worship of this holy woman and brings to the surface some under-exposed aspects of St. Anne’s cult. It does so through the examination of manuscripts, monumental art, relics, sculpture, and texts of various genres. The contributors employ a historical as well as a theological perspective on how the cult of St. Anne (sometimes also with glimpses concerning that of Joachim) established itself; referring to areas in Europe which are not frequently discussed in English-language scholarship. This new contribution to the field of hagiography will be of interest to academics from a variety of research fields, including theologians, Byzantinists, art and church historians, and historians of a larger scope.&nbsp;</p>

Explores the multifaceted veneration of St. Anne as an educator, a mother, a saint, and a spouse Examines St. Anne’s cult in areas of Europe that have not been studied before Brings together contributions from a variety of research fields, including theologians, Byzantinists, and art historians