Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Blurred Boundaries in Pre-Modern Texts and Images: Aspects of Audiences and Readers-Viewers Responses 1
5. The Sacred and the Profane in German Courtly Romances and Late Medieval Verse Narratives: With an Emphasis on Ulrich Bonerius and Heinrich Kaufringer 15
6. The Poetic and Ideological Blurring of Boundaries in the Jewish Book of Ethics Orḥot Ṣaddiqim 41
7. Laughing at Death: Blurred Boundaries in Giotto’s Last Judgment 57
8. The Popular in Service of the Sacred: The Sculpted Musicians of Santiago de Compostela 79
9. Image and Legend of Saint Margaret as an Aid in Childbirth Rituals 101
10. Violent Women and the Blurring of Gender in some Medieval Narratives 125
11. On the Heavenly and the Earthly, the Secular as Sacred – A New Reading of Medieval Hebrew Fables 145
12. The Secular and the Sacred in a Bifolio from Louis of Laval’s Book of Hours and Its Spiritual Use 165
13. Between Psalter and “Mirrors for Princes”: On the Moral and Didactic Messages in BL Cotton MS Domitian A XVII 185
14. Visual and Textual Authority: Reading Chevalier in Manuscripts of La Vie des pères 205
15. Aspects of Italian and Flemish Identity in Relation to Book Illumination: Reception of Devotional and Antiquarian Ideas through Depictions of Jewelry 229
16. List of Illustrations 249
17. Notes on Contributors 253
18. Index 255