Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments: À la recherche du temps perdu xi
5. Part One: Mary before Fulbert
6. 1. Chartres in Early Histories and Legends 3
7. 2. War and Peace in the Mid-Tenth Century 28
8. Part Two: Mary’s Time From Advent to the Nativity of the Virgin at Chartres
9. 3. Adventus and Advent: History and Lineage in the Latin Rite 55
10. 4. Trauma and the Remedies of History 79
11. 5. The Virgin in the Second Half of the Eleventh Century: Fulbert Becomes a Liturgist 107
12. Part Three: Politics and Religious Fervor in Twelfth-Century Chartres
13. 6. New Modes of Seeing: Ideals of Reform in the Early Twelfth Century 133
14. 7. Intrigue, Fervor, and the Building of Churches 156
15. 8. The Campaign at Midcentury: Bishops, Dignitaries, and Canons 179
16. Part Four: History Revealed The Cult of the Virgin and the Visual Arts in the Mid-Twelfth Century
17. 9. The Virgin and the Tabernacle 205
18. 10. Adventus and Lineage: The Meanings of the Jamb Statues 242
19. 11. Reality and Prophecy: Exegetical Narrative in the West Façade 282
20. 12. History Retold: From the West Lancets to the Afterlife of the Cult 323
21. Appendixes 369
22. Abbreviations 459
23. Notes 461
24. Bibliography 559