Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages

Jane Beal, Ph.D. (2002), University of California, Davis, is a professor of English literature at the University of La Verne. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Illuminating Moses in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2014).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsIllustrationsAbbreviationsContributorsIntroduction: Illuminating Jesus in the Middle AgesJane Beal1 Jesus and the Psalms: The Witness of the Latin Liturgical SequenceNancy van Deusen2 The Miracles of Jesus in the Writings of the Venerable BedeGeorge Hardin Brown3 The “Hælend” and Other Images of Jesus in Anglo-Saxon EnglandLarry Swain4 Christ as an Early Irish Hero: The Poems of Blathmac, Son of Cú BrettanTomás Ó Cathasaigh5 The Teaching Logos: Christology and Tropology in Theophylact of Ochrid’s Interpretation of New Testament ParablesThomas Cattoi6 “I Am”: The Glossa Ordinaria on John’s GospelLinda Stone7 Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval WestRob Lutton8 The Unicorn as a Symbol for Christ in the Middle AgesJane Beal9 Godly Bridegroom and Human BrideAndrew Galloway10 Medieval Affective Piety and Christological Devotion: Juliana of Mont Cornillon and the Feast of Corpus ChristiBarbara Zimbalist11 Imitatio Christi and Authority in the Lives of St. FrancisDonna Trembinski12 Vision and Sacrament: Christ’s Humanity in the Spirituality of Gertrude the Great of HelftaAaron Canty13 Christ as Turning Point in Dante’s CommediaVictorio Montemaggi and Lesley Sullivan14 Jesus and the Christ in Two Middle English Psalm CommentariesMichael P. Kuczynski15 Jesus as ‘Mother’ in Julian of Norwich’s Showing of LoveJulia Bolton Holloway16 Translation Debates and Lay Accessibility in the Meditationes Vitae Christi and Middle English Lives of ChristPaul J. PattersonBibliographyIndex