Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40941-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Commentaria

In Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages, editor Jane Beal and other scholars analyse the reception history of images and ideas about Jesus in medieval cultures (6th–15th c.). They consider representations of Jesus in the liturgy of the medieval church, Psalters and psalm commentaries, bestiaries, the Glossa ordinaria, and Middle English vitae Christi as well as among the English, the Irish, and Europeans, adherents to the cult of the Holy Name, participants in the Feast of Corpus Christi, and medieval contemplatives, including Bede, Theophylact of Ochrid, Saint Francis, Gertrude the Great, Dante, Julian of Norwich, and medieval English and European visionaries, among others.

Contributors are Jane Beal, George Hardin Brown, Aaron Canty, Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Thomas Cattoi, Andrew Galloway, Julia Bolton Holloway, Michael Kuczynski, Rob Lutton, Vittorio Montemaggi, Paul Patterson, Linda Stone, Lesley Sullivan Marcantonio, Larry Swain, Donna Trembinski, Nancy van Deusen, and Barbara Zimbalist.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Beal, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction: Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages
Jane Beal

1 Jesus and the Psalms: The Witness of the Latin Liturgical Sequence
Nancy van Deusen

2 The Miracles of Jesus in the Writings of the Venerable Bede
George Hardin Brown

3 The “Hælend” and Other Images of Jesus in Anglo-Saxon England
Larry Swain

4 Christ as an Early Irish Hero: The Poems of Blathmac, Son of Cú Brettan
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh

5 The Teaching Logos: Christology and Tropology in Theophylact of Ochrid’s Interpretation of New Testament Parables
Thomas Cattoi

6 “I Am”: The Glossa Ordinaria on John’s Gospel
Linda Stone

7 Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West
Rob Lutton

8 The Unicorn as a Symbol for Christ in the Middle Ages
Jane Beal

9 Godly Bridegroom and Human Bride
Andrew Galloway

10 Medieval Affective Piety and Christological Devotion: Juliana of Mont Cornillon and the Feast of Corpus Christi
Barbara Zimbalist

11 Imitatio Christi and Authority in the Lives of St. Francis
Donna Trembinski

12 Vision and Sacrament: Christ’s Humanity in the Spirituality of Gertrude the Great of Helfta
Aaron Canty

13 Christ as Turning Point in Dante’s Commedia
Victorio Montemaggi and Lesley Sullivan

14 Jesus and the Christ in Two Middle English Psalm Commentaries
Michael P. Kuczynski

15 Jesus as ‘Mother’ in Julian of Norwich’s Showing of Love
Julia Bolton Holloway

16 Translation Debates and Lay Accessibility in the Meditationes Vitae Christi and Middle English Lives of Christ
Paul J. Patterson

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Beal, Ph.D. (2002), University of California, Davis, is a professor of English literature at the University of La Verne. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Illuminating Moses in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2014).