Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

232 Pages·2003·60.068 MB·English

by  Susan C. Karant-Nunn

V
arieties
of
D
evotion
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Arizona Studies in the M iddle Ages and the Renaissance
General Editors
Robert E. Bjork
Helen Nader James Fitzmaurice
Volume 7
V
arieties
of
D
evotion
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Edited by
Susan C. Karant-Nunn
H
BREPOLS
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Varieties of devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. -
(Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 7)
l.Workship - History - To 1500 2.Workship - History - 16 th
century 3.Devotion
I.Karant-Nunn, Susan C. II.Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies
248.3’094’0902
ISBN 2503513891
© 2003, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,
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D/2003/0095/40
ISBN 2-503-51389-1
Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper
To my students, past and present

Contents
Acknowledgement ix
Introduction xi
SUSAN C. KARANT-NUNN
“A Dwelling Place of Christ, a Healing Place of Knowledge”: The Non- 1
Chalcedonian Eucharist in Late Antique Egypt and Its Setting
LESLIE S. B. MACCOULL
Theology and Culture: Masculinizing the Woman 17
LAILA ABDALLA
Pain and Saint-Making in Andreas, Bede, and the Old English 39
Lives of St. Margaret
PETER DENDLE
From Hermits to Mendicant Friars: Continuity and Change 53
in the Carmelite Order
ANDREAS RÜTHER
A Book for Poverty’s Daughters: Gender andD evotion 61
in Paris Bibliothèque Nationale Ital. 115
HOLLY FLORA
viii Contents
Authority, Heresy, and Popular Devotion: 99
Le Mans (1116) Reconsidered
JOHN S.OTT
The Poetics of Authorship and Vernacular Religious Devotion 125
MICHELLE BOLDUC
Of Magi and Men: Christ’s Nativity and Masculine Community 145
in the Chester Drama Cycle
CHRISTINA M. LITZGERALD
Patterns of Male Affectivity in the Late Middle Ages: 163
The Case of Jean Gerson
BRIAN PATRICK MCGUIRE
“Take and Taste”: Sacramental Physiology, Eucharistic Experience, 179
and George Herbert’s The Temple
RYAN NETZLEY
Notes on Contributors 207
Index 211
Acknowledgement
I am deeply grateful for the assistance of Sandra Swedeen Kimball in fulfilling my
editorial duties. She knows that, without her help, I could well have had to withdraw
from my part in bringing out this volume.
SUSAN C. KARANT-NUNN