Mary, the Apostles, and the Last Judgment: Apocryphal Representations from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages [Hardcover]

This volume presents a timely contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the apocryphal writings and their reception in the Middle Ages, especially in connection with visual representation. It aims to bridge what often remains disconnected, the visual art and the written text, the early Christian roots and medieval reception, the East and the West, as well as methodologies of various disciplines. The studies in this volume firstly investigate issues related to the Virgin Mary, and through them, also the status, function, and identity of women. Mary and the female element thus represent significant models and/or background figures in fields pertaining to theology, religious studies, textual studies, manuscript studies, and art history in a trans-disciplinary perspective. Secondly, the studies focus on the apostles and the Last Judgment, their visual representations and the use of apocryphal sources. The volume is divided in two parts according to two major topics: Part I dealing with Mary in the Apocrypha, and Part II focusing on the Apostles and the Last Judgment.Notes on Contributors Introduction CHAPTER 1. Responsible Midwifery or Reckless Disbelief? Revisiting Salome's Examination of Mary in The Protevangelium Jacobi, by Mark M. Mattison CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Mary as High Priest in Early Christian Narratives and Iconography, by Ally Kateusz CHAPTER 3. Visual Cherubikon: Mary as Priest at Lagoudera in Cyprus, by Matthew J. Milliner CHAPTER 4. Apocryphal Iconography in the Byzantine Churches of Cappadocia: Meaning and Visibility in Scenes of the Story of Mary and the Infancy of Christ, by Manuela Studer-Karlen CHAPTER 5. The Impact of Apocryphal Sources on the Annunciation in Medieval Art, by Marilyn Gasparini CHAPTER 6. Pseudepigrapha and Last Judgment Iconography: Examples from the Church of the Ascension in Luzhany, by Daria Coscodan CHAPTER 7. Apocryphal Sources and Their Importance in the Italian Iconography of Saint James the Greater, by l£¯