This book aims to documentarily demonstrate the underlying theological meanings of the conjugal bed in some medieval and Renaissance imagesof the Annunciation to Mary. To justify with academic rigor hisiconographic interpretations of such furniture in these images, theauthor of the book analyzes an abundant corpus of texts in which, formore than a millennium, many medieval Fathers, theologians, andhymnographers of the Eastern and Western Churches explained withMariological and Christological pro...