The Christ Child in Medieval Culture : : Alpha es et O! / / Mary Dzon, Theresa Kenney.

• VerfasserIn: Dzon, Mary,; Kenney, Theresa,
• MitwirkendeR: Dzon, Mary,; Fallon, Nicole,; Flora, Holly,; Gertsman, Elina,; Kenney, Theresa,; Kieckhefer, Richard,; Maclehose, William,; Marcus, Leah S.,; Mcdevitt, Mary,; Rubin, Miri,; Sheingorn, Pamela,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

The cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular culture, visual art, and literature. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized and employed in this period.The contributors to this unique volume analyse depictions of the Christ Child through a variety of frameworks, including the interplay of mortality and divinity, the medieval conceit of a suffering Christ Child, and the interrelationships between Christ and other figures, including saints and ordinary children. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture synthesizes various approaches to interpreting the cultural meaning of medieval religious imagery and illuminates the significance of its most central figure.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child -- PART ONE: The Christ Child as Sacrifice -- 1. The Christ Child as Sacrifice: A Medieval Tradition and the English Cycle Plays -- 2. The Manger as Calvary and Altar in the Middle English Nativity Lyric -- 3. Signs of Death: The Sacrificial Christ Child in Late-Medieval Art -- 4. The Christ Child in the Tree: The Motif in the Thirteenth-Century Wood-of-the- Cross Legends and Arthurian Romances -- PART TWO: The Christ Child and Feminine Spirituality -- 5. Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's Clothing -- 6. Women Wielding Knives: The Circumcision of Christ by His Mother in an Illustrated Manuscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France ital. 115) -- 7. Ihesus ist unser!: The Christ Child in the German Sister Books -- PART THREE: The Question of the Christ Child's Development -- 8. The Holy Tooth: Dentition, Childhood Development, and the Cult of the Christ Child -- 9. 'The Ink of Our Mortality': The Late-Medieval Image of the Writing Christ Child -- 10. Reshapings of the Childhood Miracles of Jesus -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Contributors List -- General Index -- Index of Biblical Passages