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The Christ child in medieval culture : alpha es et o! / edited by Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- English, Middle (1100-1500)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Childhood--Art.
- Jesus Christ--Childhood--In literature.
- Jesus Christ.
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval.
- Religious thought--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Religious thought.
- Religious thought--Middle Ages.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Children.
- Childhood of Jesus Christ.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 349 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- Includes some text in Latin and Middle English.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Christ Child as Sacrifice
- 1 The Christ Child as Sacrifice: A Medieval Tradition and the English Cycle Plays / Leah S. Marcus Marcus, Leah S. 3
- 2 The Manger as Calvary and Altar in the Middle English Nativity Lyric / Theresa Kenney Kenney, Theresa 29
- 3 Signs of Death: The Sacrificial Christ Child in Late-Medieval Art / Elina Gertsman Gertsman, Elina 66
- 4 The Christ Child in the Tree: The Motif in the Thirteenth-Century Wood-of-the-Cross Legends and Arthurian Romances / Nicole Fallon Fallon, Nicole 92
- Part 2 The Christ Child and Feminine Spirituality
- 5 Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's Clothing / Mary Dzon Dzon, Mary 117
- 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) / Holly Flora Flora, Holly 145
- 7 Ihesus ist unser!: The Christ Child in the German Sister Books / Richard Kieckhefer Kieckhefer, Richard 167
- Part 3 The Question of the Christ Child's Development
- 8 The Holy Tooth: Dentition, Childhood Development, and the Cult of the Christ Child / William MacLehose MacLehose, William 201
- 9 'The Ink of Our Mortality': The Late-Medieval Image of the Writing Christ Child / Mary McDevitt McDevitt, Mary 224
- 10 Reshapings of the Childhood Miracles of Jesus / Pamela Sheingorn Sheingorn, Pamela 254.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-336) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780802098948
- 0802098940
- OCLC:
- 766388865
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