Fassler, Margot Elsbeth.

The Virgin of Chartres : making history through liturgy and the arts / Margot E. Fassler. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xiii, 612 pages, 15. pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Mary before Fulbert -- Chartres in early histories and legends -- War and peace in the mid-tenth century -- Mary's time : from Advent to the Nativity of the Virgin at Chartres -- Adventus and Advent : history and lineage in the Latin Rite -- Trauma and the remedies of history -- The Virgin in the second half of the eleventh century : Fulbert becomes a liturgist -- Politics and religious fervor in twelfth-century Chartres -- New modes of seeing : ideals of reform in the early twelfth century -- Intrigue, fervor, and the building of churches -- The campaign at midcentury : bishops, dignitaries, and canons -- History revealed : the cult of the Virgin and the visual arts in the mid-twelfth century -- The Virgin and the tabernacle -- Adventus and lineage : the meanings of the Jamb Statues -- Reality and prophecy : exegetical narrative in the west fac̦ade -- History retold : from the West Lancets to the afterlife of the cult.



9780300162875




Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint --Shrines--France--Chartres.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint --Shrines--France--Chartres.


Electronic Books.

BR848 / .V574 2010