Abstract
This study examines the incipient cult of St Anne in Valencia during the fifteenth century, using evidence such as census data to show growing interest in the saint and her cult. From a close study of Isabel de Villena’s Vita Christi and Joan Rois de Corella’s Vida de santa Anna [Life of St Anne], this essay advances the hypothesis that the cult of St Anne in the kingdom centred on St Anne’s intervention for wives unable to conceive rather than on her role as a teacher of the Virgin as in other parts of Europe. St Anne’s role as a wise woman, evidenced in Valencian iconography, took a very different path.
Highlights
A partir de un estudio de la Vita Christi de Isabel de Villena y de la Vida de santa Anna de Joan Roís de Corella, se avanza la hipótesis de que el culto de la santa en el reino de Valencia se centraba en su capacidad intercesora para ayudar a las mujeres nobles incapaces de concebir y no en su papel de educadora como sucede en otras partes de Europa
La santa como mujer sabia, presente en la iconografía valenciana como en otras partes de Europa
A recent study of the Catalan lives of Christ written in Valencia has been undertaken by Lluís Ramon i Ferrer (2015), the figure of St Anne he depicts is not linked to the development of her cult in the city
Summary
Girls’ names might reflect growing interest in the cult of a saint. To explore the incidence of the name Anna in Valencia at the end of the fifteenth century, numerous sources were examined. The third and least likely option is that Violant wrote her own prayer and asked Roís de Corella to incorporate it after the life of St Anne. Whichever of these is the correct hypothesis, the emphasis it places on the importance of St Anne as a role model for married women, in chil-. Àngela died without taking the veil and given that others were in the convent about a year before doing so, that could have been in 1506 There is another possible candidate, Anna-Isabel de Castellví, who married Pere de Montagut at the end of the fifteenth century (Garés Timor 2013: 715).. Villena was aware of the association of St Anne with the strong woman of Proverbs, as, since the fourteenth century, the office of St Anne regularly had the short scripture ‘Mulierem fortem’ at the third nocturne.
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