A cultural study of Mary and the Annunciation
Subtitle: from Luke to the Enlightenment
By: by Gary Waller
Series: Studies for the international society for cultural history -- no. 8; Studies for the international society for cultural history -- 8.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781315653631
Subjects: Annunciation; History of doctrines
Notes: Originally published 2015 by Pickering & Chatto.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. History and Historia : reading the Annunciation story from the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries; title: 2. The Annunciation : multiple texts, multiple stories; title: 3. Constructing the invented traditions of the Annunciation story : angel, virgin, conception; title: 4. Constructing the invented traditions of the Annunciation story : motherhood, obedience, humility; title: 5. Visualizing the Annunciation : the anxiety of representation; title: 6. Annunciation site relics : the invented traditions of Nazareth, Loreto and Walsingham; title: 7. 'Being in her is like being in Heaven' : the Annunciation in early modern Catholicism; title: 8. 'Full of grace' or 'highly favoured'? Erasmus, the Annunciation and the Protestant cultural revolution; title: 9. 'Verk©ơndigung nach Tizian' (the Annunciation after Titian) and the disenchantment of the early modern world.