Title: The Christ child in medieval culture : alpha es et o! /
Authors: Kenney, Theresa M.; Dzon, Mary, 1972-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Jesus Christ Childhood and youth In literature.; Jesus Christ Childhood and youth Art.; Jésus-Christ Enfance Art.; Jésus-Christ Enfance, dans la littérature.; Jesus Christ Childhood Art.; Jesus Christ Childhood In literature.; Christian art and symbolism; Religious thought; Civilization, Medieval; Art chrétien; Pensée religieuse; Civilisation médiévale.
Abstract: "The 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.
Contents: The Christ child as a sacrifice: a medieval tradition and the English cycle plays / Leah S. 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 -- Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's clothing / Mary Dzon -- Women wielding knives: the circumcision of Christ by his mother in an illustrated manscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi (Paris, Bibliotheque national de France ital. 115) / Holly Flora -- Ihusus is unser!: the Christ child in the German sister books / Richard Keickhefer -- 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.