The quest for the Christ child in the later Middle Ages / Mary Dzon.

Author: Dzon, Mary, 1972- author.

ImprintPhiladelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Descriptionx, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: recovering Christ-child images -- The Christ child in two treatises of Aelred of Rievaulx and in early Franciscan sources -- Aquinas and the apocryphal Christ child in the later Middle Ages -- A maternal view of Christ's childhood in the writings of Birgitta of Sweden -- Conclusion: the yearning of the quest -- Appendix: Summary of William Caxton's Infantia salvatoris (c. 1477).

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-394) and index.

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