The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!

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MARY DZON, THERESA KENNEY. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!, University of Toronto Press, 2012, 349 p.
ISBN: 978-0802098948

MARY DZON, THERESA KENNEY:Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child.

 SECTION ONE: The Christ Child as Sacrifice

LEAH MARCUS: The Christ Child as Sacrifice: A Medieval Tradition and the English Cycle Plays.
THERESA KENNEY: The Manger as Calvary and Altar in the Middle English Nativity Lyric.
ELINA GERTSMAN: Signs of Death: The Sacrificial Christ Child in Late Medieval Art.
NICOLE FALLON: The Christ Child in the Tree: The Motif in the Thirteenth-Century Wood-of-the-Cross Legends and Arthurian Romances.

SECTION TWO: The Christ Child and Feminine Spirituality

MARY DZON: Birgitta of Sweden and Christ’s Clothing.
HOLLY FLORA: Women Wielding Knives: The Circumcision of Christ by His Mother in an Illustrated Manuscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale de France MS. ital. 115).
RICHARD KIECKHEFER: Ihesus ist unser!: The Christ Child in the German Sister Books.

SECTION THREE: The Question of the Christ Child’s Development

WILLIAM MACLEHOSE: The Holy Tooth: Dentition, Childhood Development, and the Cult of the Christ Child.
MARY MCDEVITT: ‘The Ink of Our Mortality’: The Late-Medieval Image of the Writing Christ Child.
PAMELA SHEINGORN: Reshapings of the Childhood Miracles of Jesus.