The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalising of modernity. The Middle Ages / Volume 1, (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Middle ages
• Further Information: Note: Jan M. Ziolkowski.
• Authors: Ziolkowski, Jan M, 1956-
• Other Names: Open Book Publishers, publisher.
• Contents: Note to the Reader -- Preface -- 1. The Medieval Beginnings of Our Lady's Tumbler. The French Poem ; The Manuscripts ; Gautier de Coinci and Anonymity ; Picardy ; The Identity of the Poet ; The Bas-de-Page Miniature: Of Marginal Interest ; The Genre: Long Story Short ; The Table of Exempla, in Alphabetical Order ; The Latin Exemplum ; The Life of the Fathers ; True Story: Why the Story Succeeded -- 2. Dancing for God. The Tumbler ; Notre Dame versus Saint Mary ; The Equivocal Status of Jongleurs ; Trance Dance ; Jongleurs of God ; Holy Fools ; Fact or Fiction? -- 3. Cistercian Monks and Lay Brothers ; The Order of Cîteaux ; Cistercians and the Virgin ; Mother's Milk ; Mary's Head-Coverings ; Cistercian Lay Brothers ; Conversion Therapy ; The Language of Silence ; Gym Clothes ; Sweat Cloth ; The Weighing of Souls ; The Latin-Less Lay Brother and Our Lady -- 4. Reformation Endings: A Temporary Vanishing Act. What Makes a Story Popular? ; Walsingham, England's Nazareth ; Madonnas of the World Wars ; Literary Iconoclasm ; Marian Apparitions -- 5. A Troupe of Sources and Analogues. King David's Dancing ; The Widow's Mites ; The Virgin's Miraculous Images and Apparitions ; The Jongleur of Rocamadour ; The Holy Candle of Arras ; The Pious Sweat of Monks and Lay Brothers ; The Love of Statuesque Beauty ; The Holy Face of Christ and Virgin Saints -- Notes. Notes to Preface ; Notes to Chapter 1 ; Notes to Chapter 2 ; Notes to Chapter 3 ; Notes to Chapter 4 ; Notes to Chapter 5 -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (406 pages), 153 colour illustrations
• Subjects: 841/.109; Medievalism; Civilization, Medieval -- Influence; Middle Ages -- Historiography; Middle Ages -- Influence; Medievalism; Middle Ages -- Historiography; Middle Ages -- Influence; POETRY / Continental European; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783744350; 1783744359; 9781783744367; 1783744367
• Related ISBNs: 9781783744343; 9781783744336
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-375) and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.