The Virgin of Chartres
Subtitle: making history through liturgy and the arts
By: Margot E. Fassler.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300110883
Subjects: Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Shrines -- France -- Chartres; Chartres (France) -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mary before Fulbert; title: Chartres in early histories and legends; title: War and peace in the mid-tenth century; title: Mary's time : from Advent to the Nativity of the Virgin at Chartres; title: Adventus and Advent : history and lineage in the Latin Rite; title: Trauma and the remedies of history; title: The Virgin in the second half of the eleventh century : Fulbert becomes a liturgist; title: Politics and religious fervor in twelfth-century Chartres; title: New modes of seeing : ideals of reform in the early twelfth century; title: Intrigue, fervor, and the building of churches; title: The campaign at midcentury : bishops, dignitaries, and canons; title: History revealed : the cult of the Virgin and the visual arts in the mid-twelfth century; title: The Virgin and the tabernacle; title: Adventus and lineage : the meanings of the Jamb Statues; title: Reality and prophecy : exegetical narrative in the west facade; title: History retold : from the West Lancets to the afterlife of the cult; title: Appendices A-H.