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The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image
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Literary CriticismEuropean Art
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ISBN10: 1843844613
ISBN13: 9781843844617
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: May 19 2017
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 9.30 Depth: 6.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781843844617
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: May 19 2017
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 9.30 Depth: 6.20
Language: English
An investigation of the depiction of the story of Theophilus in both its original texts, and images. The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic medieval story, its widespread popularity attesting to its grip on the imagination. A pious clerk refuses a promotion, is demoted, becomes furious and makes a contract with the Devil. Later repentant, he seeks out a church and a statue of the Virgin; she appears to him, and he is transformed from apostate to saint. It is illustrated in a variety of media: texts, stained glass, sculpture, and manuscript illuminations.
Through a wide range of manuscript illuminations and a selection of French texts, the book explores visual and textual representations of the legend, setting it in its social, cultural and material contexts, and showing how it explores medieval anxieties concerning salvation and identity. The author argues that the legend is a sustained meditation on the power of images, its popularity corresponding with the rise of their role in portraying medieval identity and salvation, and in acting as portals between the limits of the material and the possibilities of the spiritual world Jerry Root is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Utah.
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