The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts

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Mary before Fulbert.
Chartres in early histories and legends.
War and peace in the mid-tenth century.
Mary’s time: from Advent to the Nativity of the Virgin at Chartres.
Adventus and Advent: history and lineage in the Latin Rite.
Trauma and the remedies of history.
The Virgin in the second half of the eleventh century: Fulbert becomes a liturgist.
Politics and religious fervor in twelfth-century Chartres.
New modes of seeing: ideals of reform in the early twelfth century.
Intrigue, fervor, and the building of churches.
The campaign at midcentury: bishops, dignitaries, and canons.
History revealed: the cult of the Virgin and the visual arts in the mid-twelfth century.
The Virgin and the tabernacle.
Adventus and lineage: the meanings of the Jamb Statues.
Reality and prophecy: exegetical narrative in the west façade.
History retold: from the West Lancets to the afterlife of the cult.