The Virgin of Chartres : making history through liturgy and the arts / Margot E. Fassler.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fassler, Margot Elsbeth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mary before Fulbert
  • Chartres in early histories and legends
  • War and peace in the mid-tenth century
  • Mary's time : from Advent to the Nativity of the Virgin at Chartres
  • Adventus and Advent : history and lineage in the Latin Rite
  • Trauma and the remedies of history
  • The Virgin in the second half of the eleventh century : Fulbert becomes a liturgist
  • Politics and religious fervor in twelfth-century Chartres
  • New modes of seeing : ideals of reform in the early twelfth century
  • Intrigue, fervor, and the building of churches
  • The campaign at midcentury : bishops, dignitaries, and canons
  • History revealed : the cult of the Virgin and the visual arts in the mid-twelfth century
  • The Virgin and the tabernacle
  • Adventus and lineage : the meanings of the Jamb Statues
  • Reality and prophecy : exegetical narrative in the west fac̦ade
  • History retold : from the West Lancets to the afterlife of the cult.