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, Visions of God and ideas on deification in Patristics thought (2016), and the articles “Generation (γενεά) in Gregory Nazianzen’s poem On the Son” (2017); “Early Christianity about the notion of time and the redemption of the world” (2017), and “Late Developments in Meta-Byzantine Icon-Painting” (2017).

• 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.