The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages. Mary Dzon

      

      The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages

      THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES

      Ruth Mazo Karras, Series Editor

      Edward Peters, Founding Editor

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      THE QUEST FOR

      THE CHRIST CHILD

      IN THE LATER

      MIDDLE AGES

      Mary Dzon

      UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

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      In loving memory of Christine T. Dzon

      Coram patre Deus par patri lusit ab aevo,Coram matre nova tempore lusit homo.

      —Alexander Neckam, De laudibusdivinae sapientiae

      CONTENTS

       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

      ABBREVIATIONS

AASS	Acta Sanctorum, 69 vols. (Paris, 1863–1940)
Add	Additional
BL	British Library
BnF	Bibliothèque nationale de France
CCCM	Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis
CCSA	Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum
CCSL	Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina
CF	Cistercian Fathers
CS	Cistercian Studies
CSEL	Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
DS	Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascetique et mystique, doctrine et histoire, ed. Marcel Viller, 17 vols. (Paris: G. Beauchesne et ses fils, 1937–1995)
EETS	Early English Text Society
o.s.	Original Series
e.s.	Extra Series
s.s.	Supplementary Series
FAED	Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, edited by Regis J. Armstrong, J.A. Wayne Hellmann, and William J. Short, 4 vols. including the index (New York: New City Press, 1999–2002)
FC	Fathers of the Church
FF	Fontes Franciscani, edited by Enrico Menestò and Stefano Brufani (Assisi: Edizioni Porziuncola, 1995)
GL	Golden Legend
LA	Legenda aurea
MED	Middle English Dictionary, ed. Hans Kurath et al. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952–2001)
MGH	Monumenta Germaniae Historica
OED	Oxford English Dictionary, ed. J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
PG	Patrologia Graeca, ed. J.-P. Migne, 161 vols. (Paris, 1857–66)
PL	Patrologia Latina, ed. J.-P. Migne, 221 vols. (Paris, 1844–64)
PMLA	Publications of the Modern Language Association
RS	Rolls Series
SC	Sources Chrétiennes
SFSS	Samlingar utgivna av Svenska Fornskrifsällskapet (Swedish Medieval Texts’ Society Series)
ST	Summa theologiae

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