The Christ Child in Medieval Culture

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ISBN: 9780802098948 | 0802098940
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Copyright: 5/9/2012

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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

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child	p. xiii
The Christ Child as Sacrifice
The Christ Child as Sacrifice: A Medieval Tradition and the English Cycle Plays	p. 3
The Manger as Calvary and Altar in the Middle English Nativity Lyric	p. 29
Signs of Death: The Sacrificial Christ Child in Late-Medieval Art	p. 66
The Christ Child in the Tree: The Motif in the Thirteenth-Century Wood-of-the-Cross Legends and Arthurian Romances	p. 92
The Christ Child and Feminine Spirituality
Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's Clothing	p. 117
Women Wielding Knives: The Circumcision of Christ by His Mother in an Illustrated Manuscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France ital. 115)	p. 145
Ihesus ist unser!: The Christ Child in the German Sister Books	p. 167
The Question of the Christ Child's Development
The Holy Tooth: Dentition, Childhood Development, and the Cult of the Christ Child	p. 201
æThe Ink of Our Mortality': The Late-Medieval Image of the Writing Christ Child	p. 224
Reshapings of the Childhood Miracles of Jesus	p. 254
Epilogue	p. 293
Works Cited	p. 299
Contributors List	p. 337
General Index	p. 339
Index of Biblical Passages	p. 348
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