ABSTRACT

Dr Jennifer Welsh received her M.A. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2000, and her M.A. and PhD in History from Duke University in 2004 and 2009. Her dissertation dealt with the cult of St. Anne in late medieval and early modern Europe. After four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, she started working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Lindenwood-University Belleville in Belleville, IL in August of 2014. This is her first book.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|30 pages

Constructing St. Anne

chapter 3|31 pages

Anne, mother of mothers

chapter 4|32 pages

Sacred and secular economies

chapter 5|30 pages

From Holy Kinship to “holy household”

chapter 6|24 pages

Decline, transformation, and revival

chapter 7|32 pages

St. Anne’s Baroque revival