Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne

Donna L. Sadler, Ph.D. Indiana University 1984, is a professor of art history at Agnes Scott College. She has published Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in 13th-century France (2012) and articles on the art of Saint Louis, the court of Claus Sluter, and the dogs on royal tomb effigies.

• ContentsAcknowledgements ixList of Illustrations xiIntroduction 11 The Origins of the Entombment of Christ 72 The Entombment of Christ: Echoes of the Performative Piety of theSculpture at the Chartreuse de Champmol 253 The Entombment of Christ: The Absent Presence of the ResurrectedChrist and the Holy Sepulcher 724 Hocus Pocus: The Entombment of Christ and Medieval Performance 1115 Conclusion: The Entombments in the Context of Late MedievalSculpture 149Bibliography 199Index 229