Late Antique Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning

Catherine Gines Taylor, Ph.D. (2012), The University of Manchester, is a Visiting Fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. She has published articles and book chapters on iconography and women within early Christian memorial settings, including The Pignatta Sarcophagus: Late Antique Iconography and the Memorial Culture of Salvation (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2016).

• List of FiguresIntroduction. Preceding the Ascetic Type: Earliest Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning1 The Protoevangelium of James: A Contemporary Apocryphum2 Methodological Considerations3 Patristic Considerations1 The Roots and Precedents1 Catacombs of Priscilla, Cubiculum P—The First Annunciation2 Spinning and Roman Public Display: Minerva and Domition’s Forum Transitorium3 Spinning in Legend4 Spinning Iconography amongst Elites and Non-Elites in Roman Society5 The Attributes of Virtue: Spinning in Proverbs and the Jewish Tradition6 Conclusions2 The Maiden. The Domestic Cult of Mary: Imitatio Mariae and Spinning a Sacred Conversation1 Mary the Maiden2 Annunciation Iconography and the Domestic Cult of Mary3 Maiden’s Tools: Sacred, Profane, Mundane4 The Maiden Imaged as the Ascetic5 Marian Devotion as Counter-Ascetic6 Proclus and the Constantinopolitan Tradition of Imitatio Mariae7 Imitatio Mariae and the Syriac Tradition of the Domestic Annunciation8 Conclusions: Work as a Sacred Conversation and a Life Pleasing to God3 The Matron1 Marriage Art and Marriage Rings2 The Annunciation as Privileged Iconography: Ring Descriptions3 The Fifth-Century Legal Context and Family Life4 The Paraphernalia of Married Fertility and Early Church Councils5 Children, “An Inheritance of the Lord”6 Conclusions4 The Household1 Women in Purple: Privileged Patronage2 Women in Linen and Wool: Domestic Piety and Patronage3 Late Antique Textiles and the Domestic Sphere4 Textile Patronage in Panopolis5 The Abegg-Stiftung “Mary Silk”6 A Linen Burial Cloth from the Victoria and Albert Museum7 Later Comparative Textiles8 Burial Garments and the Threshold of Death9 Conclusions5 Memorial1 Comparisons from the Grave: Other Roman Catacombs2 The Pignatta Sarcophagus3 Patristics in Ravenna4 Attitudes toward Death and Salvation5 Phrygian Tombstones6 ConclusionsConclusion. The Virgin Annunciate Spinning: A Matronly Model, “In Whom All Opposites are Reconciled”1 Santa Maria Maggiore2 Final ThoughtsBibliographyIndex