The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and...

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The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic medieval story, its widespread popularity attesting to its grip on the imagination. A pious clerk refuses a promotion, is demoted, becomes furious and makes a contract with the Devil. Later repentant, he seeks out a church and a statue of the Virgin; she appears to him, and he is transformed from apostate to saint. It is illustrated in a variety of media: texts, stained glass, sculpture, and manuscript illuminations. Through a wide range of manuscript illuminations and a selection of French texts, the book explores visual and textual representations of the legend, setting it in its social, cultural and material contexts, and showing how it explores medieval anxieties concerning salvation and identity. The author argues that the legend is a sustained meditation on the power of images, its popularity corresponding with the rise of their role in portraying medieval identity and salvation, and in acting as portals between the limits of the material and the possibilities of the spiritual world Jerry Root is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University ofUtah.

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Jerry Root

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Homage to the Devil: ritual, writing, seal
The Self as dissemblance
Intervention of the Virgin
Sacramental action and Neoplatonic exemplarism
Conclusion
Works Cited
Appendix: Image Charts

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781843844617
ISBN-10:	1843844613
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Root, Jerry
Hersteller:	Boydell & Brewer
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	157 x 236 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Jerry Root
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.05.2017
Gewicht:	0,748 kg

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