Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child xiii
7. PART ONE: The Christ Child as Sacrifice
8. 1. The Christ Child as Sacrifice: A Medieval Tradition and the English Cycle Plays 3
9. 2. The Manger as Calvary and Altar in the Middle English Nativity Lyric 29
10. 3. Signs of Death: The Sacrificial Christ Child in Late-Medieval Art 66
11. 4. The Christ Child in the Tree: The Motif in the Thirteenth-Century Wood-of-the- Cross Legends and Arthurian Romances 92
12. PART TWO: The Christ Child and Feminine Spirituality
13. 5. Birgitta of Sweden and Christ’s Clothing 117
14. 6. Women Wielding Knives: The Circumcision of Christ by His Mother in an Illustrated Manuscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France ital. 115) 145
15. 7. Ihesus ist unser!: The Christ Child in the German Sister Books 167
16. PART THREE: The Question of the Christ Child’s Development
17. 8. The Holy Tooth: Dentition, Childhood Development, and the Cult of the Christ Child 201
18. 9. ‘The Ink of Our Mortality’: The Late-Medieval Image of the Writing Christ Child 224
19. 10. Reshapings of the Childhood Miracles of Jesus 254
20. Epilogue 293
21. Works Cited 299
22. Contributors List 337
23. General Index 339
24. Index of Biblical Passages 348