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1 online resource (xxii, 349 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Contents |
Introduction: the infancy of scholarship on the Medieval Christ child / Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney -- 1. Christ child as a sacrifice: a medieval tradition and the English cycle plays / Leah S. Marcus -- 2. Manger as Calvary and altar in the Middle English nativity lyric / Theresa Kenney -- 3. Signs of death: the sacrificial Christ child in late-medieval art / Elina Gertsman -- 4. Christ child in the tree: the motif in the thirteenth-century wood-of-the-cross legends and Arthurian romances / Nicole Fallon -- 5. Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's clothing / Mary Dzon -- 6. 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 -- 7. Ihusus is unser!: the Christ child in the German sister books / Richard Keickhefer -- 8. Holy tooth: dentition, childhood development, and the cult of the Christ child / William MacLehose -- 9. 'The ink of our mortality': the late-medieval image of the writing Christ child / Mary McDevitt -- 10. Reshapings of the childhood miracles of Jesus / Pamela Sheingorn -- Epilogue / Miri Rubin. |
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Includes some text in Latin and Middle English. |
| Subject |
Jesus Christ -- Childhood -- Art.
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Jesus Christ. |
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Children. |
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Childhood of Jesus Christ. |
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Jesus Christ -- Childhood -- In literature.
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Jesus Christ. |
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Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Religious thought -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Civilization, Medieval. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Art.
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Art.
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| Added Author |
Kenney, Theresa M.
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Dzon, Mary, 1972-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Christ child in medieval culture. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2012 9780802098948 (OCoLC)766388865 |
| ISBN |
9781442695337 (electronic book : uPub) |
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1442695331 (electronic book : uPub) |
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9781442625181 (electronic book : ePub) |
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144262518X (electronic book : ePub) |
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9780802098948 |
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9780802099648 |
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0802099645 |
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