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Author Waller, Gary

Title A cultural study of Mary and the Annunciation : from Luke to the Enlightenment / by Gary Waller
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Studies for the international society for cultural history ; no. 8
Studies for the international society for cultural history ; 8.
Contents 1. History and Historia : reading the Annunciation story from the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries -- 2. The Annunciation : multiple texts, multiple stories -- 3. Constructing the invented traditions of the Annunciation story : angel, virgin, conception -- 4. Constructing the invented traditions of the Annunciation story : motherhood, obedience, humility -- 5. Visualizing the Annunciation : the anxiety of representation -- 6. Annunciation site relics : the invented traditions of Nazareth, Loreto and Walsingham -- 7. 'Being in her is like being in Heaven' : the Annunciation in early modern Catholicism -- 8. 'Full of grace' or 'highly favoured'? Erasmus, the Annunciation and the Protestant cultural revolution -- 9. 'Verk©ơndigung nach Tizian' (the Annunciation after Titian) and the disenchantment of the early modern world
Notes Originally published 2015 by Pickering & Chatto
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-214) and index
Subject Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Annunciation -- History of doctrines
SUBJECT Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. fast (OCoLC)fst00068107
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315653631
131565363X