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The Christ child in medieval culture [electronic resource] : alpha es et o! / edited by Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney.

Contributor(s): Language: English, English, Middle (1100-1500), Latin Publication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2012Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 349 p.) : ill., facsimsISBN:
  • 9781442695337 (electronic bk.)
  • 1442695331 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Christ child in medieval culture.DDC classification:
  • 704.9/48530902 23
LOC classification:
  • N8050 .C55 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: the infancy of scholarship on the Medieval Christ child / Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney -- 1. The Christ child as a sacrifice: a medieval tradition and the English cycle plays / Leah S. 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 -- 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 national de France ital. 115) / Holly Flora -- 7. Ihusus is unser!: the Christ child in the German sister books / Richard Keickhefer -- 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 -- Epilogue / Miri Rubin.
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Includes some text in Latin and Middle English.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: the infancy of scholarship on the Medieval Christ child / Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney -- 1. The Christ child as a sacrifice: a medieval tradition and the English cycle plays / Leah S. 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 -- 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 national de France ital. 115) / Holly Flora -- 7. Ihusus is unser!: the Christ child in the German sister books / Richard Keickhefer -- 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 -- Epilogue / Miri Rubin.

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