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

"This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M., 1956- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Cambridge] : Open Book Publishers, [2018]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.