Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages / edited by Jane Beal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beal, Jane, editor.

Series:

Commentaria; volume12.

Commentaria; volume12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

In Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages, editor Jane Beal and other scholars analyse the reception history of images and ideas about Jesus in medieval cultures (6th–15th c.). They consider representations of Jesus in the liturgy of the medieval church, Psalters and psalm commentaries, bestiaries, the Glossa ordinaria, and Middle English vitae Christi as well as among the English, the Irish, and Europeans, adherents to the cult of the Holy Name, participants in the Feast of Corpus Christi, and medieval contemplatives, including Bede, Theophylact of Ochrid, Saint Francis, Gertrude the Great, Dante, Julian of Norwich, and medieval English and European visionaries, among others. Contributors are Jane Beal, George Hardin Brown, Aaron Canty, Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Thomas Cattoi, Andrew Galloway, Julia Bolton Holloway, Michael Kuczynski, Rob Lutton, Vittorio Montemaggi, Paul Patterson, Linda Stone, Lesley Sullivan Marcantonio, Larry Swain, Donna Trembinski, Nancy van Deusen, and Barbara Zimbalist.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Contributors

Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages / Jane Beal

Jesus and the Psalms: the Witness of the Latin Liturgical Sequence / Nancy van Deusen

The Miracles of Jesus in the Writings of the Venerable Bede / George Hardin Brown

The “Hælend” and Other Images of Jesus in Anglo-Saxon England / Larry Swain

Christ as an Early Irish Hero: the Poems of Blathmac, Son of Cú Brettan / Tomás Ó Cathasaigh

The Teaching Logos: Christology and Tropology in Theophylact of Ochrid’s Interpretation of New Testament Parables / Thomas Cattoi

“I Am”: the Glossa Ordinaria on John’s Gospel / Linda Stone

Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West / Rob Lutton

The Unicorn as a Symbol for Christ in the Middle Ages / Jane Beal

Godly Bridegroom and Human Bride / Andrew Galloway

Medieval Affective Piety and Christological Devotion: Juliana of Mont Cornillon and the Feast of Corpus Christi / Barbara Zimbalist

Imitatio Christi and Authority in the Lives of St. Francis / Donna Trembinski

Vision and Sacrament: Christ’s Humanity in the Spirituality of Gertrude the Great of Helfta / Aaron Canty

Christ as Turning Point in Dante’s Commedia / Vittorio Montemaggi and Lesley Sullivan Marcantonio

Jesus and the Christ in Two Middle English Psalm Commentaries / Michael P. Kuczynski

Jesus as ‘Mother’ in Julian of Norwich’s Showing of Love / Julia Bolton Holloway

Translation Debates and Lay Accessibility in the Meditationes Vitae Christi and Middle English Lives of Christ / Paul J. Patterson

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-40942-4

OCLC:

1122187804

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004409422 DOI