Mary Dzon

The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, Mary Dzon explores the continued transmission and appeal of apocryphal legends throughout the Middle Ages and demonstrates the significant impact that the Christ Child had in shaping the medieval religious imagination.

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Produktdetails

• The Middle Ages Series
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 239mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248845
• ISBN-10: 0812248848
• Artikelnr.: 46597912

Autorenporträt

Mary Dzon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee and coeditor of The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction: Recovering Christ-Child Images
Chapter 2. The Christ Child in Two Treatises of Aelred of Rievaulx and in
Early Franciscan Sources
Chapter 3. Aquinas and the Apocryphal Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages
Chapter 4. A Maternal View of Christ's Childhood in the Writings of
Birgitta of Sweden
Chapter 5. Conclusion: The Yearning of the Quest
Appendix: Summary of William Caxton's Infantia salvatoris (c. 1477)
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments