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

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Includes some text in Latin and Middle English.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the infancy of scholarship on the Medieval Christ child / Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney -- The Christ child as a sacrifice: a medieval tradition and the English cycle plays / Leah S. Marcus -- The manger as Calvary and altar in the Middle English nativity lyric / Theresa Kenney -- Signs of death: the sacrificial Christ child in late-medieval art / Elina Gertsman -- The Christ child in the tree: the motif in the thirteenth-century wood-of-the-cross legends and Arthurian romances / Nicole Fallon -- Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's clothing / Mary Dzon -- 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 -- Ihusus is unser!: the Christ child in the German sister books / Richard Keickhefer -- The holy tooth: dentition, childhood development, and the cult of the Christ child / William MacLehose -- 'The ink of our mortality': the late-medieval image of the writing Christ child / Mary McDevitt -- Reshapings of the childhood miracles of Jesus / Pamela Sheingorn -- Miri Rubin.