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OverviewThe cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular culture, visual art, and literature. 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 contributors to this unique volume analyse depictions of the Christ Child through a variety of frameworks, including the interplay of mortality and divinity, the medieval conceit of a suffering Christ Child, and the interrelationships between Christ and other figures, including saints and ordinary children. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture synthesizes various approaches to interpreting the cultural meaning of medieval religious imagery and illuminates the significance of its most central figure. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Dzon , Theresa M. KenneyPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9781442628908ISBN 10: 1442628901 Pages: 372 Publication Date: 30 March 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child Mary Dzon and Theresa Kenney SECTION ONE: The Christ Child as Sacrifice The Christ Child as Sacrifice: A Medieval Tradition and the English Cycle Plays Leah 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 SECTION TWO: The Christ Child and Feminine Spirituality 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 Nationale de France MS. ital. 115) Holly Flora Ihesus ist unser!: The Christ Child in the German Sister Books Richard Kieckhefer SECTION THREE: The Question of the Christ Child’s Development 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 Epilogue Miri Rubin Manuscripts Cited Works Cited Contributors IndexReviews'The abiding impression of this collection - and every essay repays reading and re-reading - is of the extraordinary richness and poetry of medieval devotions and its remarkable freedom from sentimental fripperies.' -- Henrietta Leyser Journal of Ecclesiastical History 'A lively collection of essays.' -- Elisabeth Dutton Speculum 'A fascinating volume that makes highly entertaining reading, and should be of widespread scholarly interest.' -- Judith Oliver The Medieval Review 'Meticulously documented and edited, this book provides an impressively rich display of the intersections of medieval theology with the visual arts, literary expression, and popular devotion... We will certainly keep this ?source-book? to explore further the ever-endearing and engaging figure of God as baby and little boy.' -- Laurie Postlewate The Catholic Historical Review vol 101:03:2015 'The abiding impression of this collection - and every essay repays reading and re-reading - is of the extraordinary richness and poetry of medieval devotions and its remarkable freedom from sentimental fripperies.' -- Henrietta Leyser Journal of Ecclesiastical History 'A lively collection of essays.' -- Elisabeth Dutton Speculum 'A fascinating volume that makes highly entertaining reading, and should be of widespread scholarly interest.' -- Judith Oliver The Medieval Review 'The book is highly relevant for those interested in the Middle Ages, the history of Christianity, as well as religion and the arts; it can be an interesting point of departure for future studies on the construction of childhood in the West.' -- Daniel S enz Journal of Religion and Culture 'Meticulously documented and edited, this book provides an impressively rich display of the intersections of medieval theology with the visual arts, literary expression, and popular devotion... We will certainly keep this source-book to explore further the ever-endearing and engaging figure of God as baby and little boy.' -- Laurie Postlewate The Catholic Historical Review vol 101:03:2015 'The abiding impression of this collection - and every essay repays reading and re-reading - is of the extraordinary richness and poetry of medieval devotions and its remarkable freedom from sentimental fripperies.' -- Henrietta Leyser Journal of Ecclesiastical History 'A lively collection of essays.' -- Elisabeth Dutton Speculum 'A fascinating volume that makes highly entertaining reading, and should be of widespread scholarly interest.' -- Judith Oliver The Medieval Review Author InformationMary Dzon is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee. Theresa M. Kenney is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Dallas. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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