The Christ Child in Medieval Culture : : Alpha es et O! /

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

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 interdiscip...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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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

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