The Christ child in medieval culture alpha es et o! /
The Christ child in medieval culture alpha es et o! /
edited by Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney.
- Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (xxii, 349 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the infancy of scholarship on the Medieval Christ child / The Christ child as a sacrifice: a medieval tradition and the English cycle plays / The manger as Calvary and altar in the Middle English nativity lyric / Signs of death: the sacrificial Christ child in late-medieval art / The Christ child in the tree: the motif in the thirteenth-century wood-of-the-cross legends and Arthurian romances / Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's clothing / 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) / Ihusus is unser!: the Christ child in the German sister books / The holy tooth: dentition, childhood development, and the cult of the Christ child / 'The ink of our mortality': the late-medieval image of the writing Christ child / Reshapings of the childhood miracles of Jesus / Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney -- Leah S. Marcus -- Theresa Kenney -- Elina Gertsman -- Nicole Fallon -- Mary Dzon -- Holly Flora -- Richard Keickhefer -- William MacLehose -- Mary McDevitt -- Pamela Sheingorn -- Miri Rubin.
9781442695337
Jesus Christ--Childhood--Art.
Jesus Christ--Childhood--In literature.
Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500.
Religious thought--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Electronic Books.
N8050 / .C475 2012
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the infancy of scholarship on the Medieval Christ child / The Christ child as a sacrifice: a medieval tradition and the English cycle plays / The manger as Calvary and altar in the Middle English nativity lyric / Signs of death: the sacrificial Christ child in late-medieval art / The Christ child in the tree: the motif in the thirteenth-century wood-of-the-cross legends and Arthurian romances / Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's clothing / 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) / Ihusus is unser!: the Christ child in the German sister books / The holy tooth: dentition, childhood development, and the cult of the Christ child / 'The ink of our mortality': the late-medieval image of the writing Christ child / Reshapings of the childhood miracles of Jesus / Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney -- Leah S. Marcus -- Theresa Kenney -- Elina Gertsman -- Nicole Fallon -- Mary Dzon -- Holly Flora -- Richard Keickhefer -- William MacLehose -- Mary McDevitt -- Pamela Sheingorn -- Miri Rubin.
9781442695337
Jesus Christ--Childhood--Art.
Jesus Christ--Childhood--In literature.
Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500.
Religious thought--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Electronic Books.
N8050 / .C475 2012