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 Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized and employed in this period.
Mary Dzon is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee.
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Abbreviations 1. Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child Mary Dzon and Theresa Kenney SECTION ONE: The Christ Child as Sacrifice 1. The Christ Child as Sacrifice: A Medieval Tradition and the English Cycle Plays Leah Marcus 2. The Manger as Calvary and Altar in the Middle English Nativity Lyric Theresa Kenney 3. Signs of Death: The Sacrificial Christ Child in Late Medieval Art Elina Gertsman 4. The Christ Child in the Tree: The Motif in the Thirteenth-Century Wood-of-the-Cross Legends and Arthurian Romances Nicole Fallon SECTION TWO: The Christ Child and Feminine Spirituality 5. Birgitta of Sweden and Christ’s Clothing Mary Dzon 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 MS. ital. 115) Holly Flora 7. Ihesus ist unser!: The Christ Child in the German Sister Books Richard Kieckhefer SECTION THREE: The Question of the Christ Child’s Development 8. The Holy Tooth: Dentition, Childhood Development, and the Cult of the Christ Child William MacLehose 9. ‘The Ink of Our Mortality’: The Late-Medieval Image of the Writing Christ Child Mary McDevitt 10. Reshapings of the Childhood Miracles of Jesus Pamela Sheingorn 11. Epilogue Miri Rubin Manuscripts Cited Works Cited Contributors Index
Abbreviations 1. Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child Mary Dzon and Theresa Kenney SECTION ONE: The Christ Child as Sacrifice 1. The Christ Child as Sacrifice: A Medieval Tradition and the English Cycle Plays Leah Marcus 2. The Manger as Calvary and Altar in the Middle English Nativity Lyric Theresa Kenney 3. Signs of Death: The Sacrificial Christ Child in Late Medieval Art Elina Gertsman 4. The Christ Child in the Tree: The Motif in the Thirteenth-Century Wood-of-the-Cross Legends and Arthurian Romances Nicole Fallon SECTION TWO: The Christ Child and Feminine Spirituality 5. Birgitta of Sweden and Christ’s Clothing Mary Dzon 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 MS. ital. 115) Holly Flora 7. Ihesus ist unser!: The Christ Child in the German Sister Books Richard Kieckhefer SECTION THREE: The Question of the Christ Child’s Development 8. The Holy Tooth: Dentition, Childhood Development, and the Cult of the Christ Child William MacLehose 9. ‘The Ink of Our Mortality’: The Late-Medieval Image of the Writing Christ Child Mary McDevitt 10. Reshapings of the Childhood Miracles of Jesus Pamela Sheingorn 11. Epilogue Miri Rubin Manuscripts Cited Works Cited Contributors Index
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