The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages /

The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages / / Mary Dzon.

Beginning in the twelfth century, clergy and laity alike started wondering with intensity about the historical and developmental details of Jesus' early life. Was the Christ Child like other children, whose characteristics and capabilities depended on their age? Was he sweet and tender, or form...

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Dzon, Mary,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.) :; 24 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Recovering Christ- Child Images
  • Chapter 2. Th e Christ Child in Two Treatises of Aelred of Rievaulx and in Early Franciscan Sources
  • Chapter 3. Aquinas and the Apocryphal Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages
  • Chapter 4. A Maternal View of Christ’s Childhood in the Writings of Birgitta of Sweden
  • Chapter 5. Conclusion: Th e Yearning of the Quest
  • Appendix: Summary of William Caxton’s Infantia salvatoris (c. 1477)
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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