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Imagining the miraculous : miraculous images of the Virgin Mary in French illuminated manuscripts, ca. 1250-ca. 1450 / Anna Russakoff.

"This is not a book about miraculous images of the Virgin Mary, but rather about their representations in French illuminated manuscripts from ca. 1250 to ca. 1450. Illustrations such as these point to the ubiquity of local miraculous Marian images in devotional practices from the thirteenth to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russakoff, Anna D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2019]
Series:Text, image, context ; 7.
Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) ; 215.
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Art.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > France > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, French.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Themes, motives.
Manuscripts, Medieval > France.
Christian art and symbolism > France > Medieval, 500-1500.
Christianity and art > France > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Miracles in art.
Gautier, > de Coinci, > 1177?-1236 > Criticism and interpretation.
Jean, > de Vignay, > approximately 1284- > Criticism and interpretation.
Miélot, Jean, > active 15th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Christian art and symbolism > Medieval.
Devotion.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
France.
Art.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Miracles of the Virgin Mary, Marian images, and their contexts
  • Miraculous Marian images in Gautier de Coinci's Les Miracles de Nostre Dame
  • The power of visuality: miracles of the Virgin in La Vie des Pères
  • A visual encyclopedia with miraculous Marian images: Jean de Vignay's Miroir historial
  • Exceptional fourteenth-century creations: miraculous Marian images in the Ci nous dit and the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages
  • Illusionism enters the picture: Jean Miélot's Version of the Miracles de Nostre Dame
  • Appendix 1: Three miracles by Gautier de Coinci
  • Appendix 2: Principal manuscripts.

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