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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child
- PART ONE: The Christ Child as Sacrifice
- 1. The Christ Child as Sacrifice: A Medieval Tradition and the English Cycle Plays
- 2. The Manger as Calvary and Altar in the Middle English Nativity Lyric
- 3. Signs of Death: The Sacrificial Christ Child in Late-Medieval Art
- 4. The Christ Child in the Tree: The Motif in the Thirteenth-Century Wood-of-the- Cross Legends and Arthurian Romances
- PART TWO: The Christ Child and Feminine Spirituality
- 5. Birgitta of Sweden and Christâs Clothing
- 6. 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)
- 7. Ihesus ist unser!: The Christ Child in the German Sister Books
- PART THREE: The Question of the Christ Childâs Development
- 8. The Holy Tooth: Dentition, Childhood Development, and the Cult of the Christ Child
- 9. âThe Ink of Our Mortalityâ: The Late-Medieval Image of the Writing Christ Child
- 10. Reshapings of the Childhood Miracles of Jesus
- Epilogue
- Works Cited
- Contributors List
- General Index
- Index of Biblical Passages