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Title

Imagining the miraculous : miraculous images of the Virgin Mary in French illuminated manuscripts, ca. 1250-ca. 1450 / Anna Russakoff.

Author

Russakoff, Anna D.,

Publication

• Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, publisher.

Description

xvii, 194 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

• "This is not a book about miraculous images of the Virgin Mary, but rather about their representations in French illuminated manuscripts from ca. 1250 to ca. 1450. Illustrations such as these point to the ubiquity of local miraculous Marian images in devotional practices from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century in French-speaking regions. This book examines in systematic fashion a large quantity of images, mostly unpublished, from the various types of texts devoted to Marian miracles. It then analyzes the depiction of their materiality and the animated miracles they perform, and traces their evolution from the earliest narratives of Marian miracles written in Old French through to the Burgundian court of the late Middle Ages."--
• This is not a book about miraculous images of the Virgin Mary (be they icons, sculptures, altarpieces, or reliquaries) but about their representations in French illuminated manuscripts from ca. 1250 to ca. 1450. Most of these depictions of the Virgin Mary cannot be identified even tangentially with particular surviving images (such as the Virgins of Rocamadour, Soissons, Chartres, and Laon). Rather, these illustrations point to the ubiquity of local miraculous Marian images in devotional practices from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century in French-speaking regions. This book analyzes depictions of material images and the animated miracles they perform, and traces their evolution from the earliest narratives of Marian miracles written in Old French to texts and images produced at the Burgundian court of the late Middle Ages.

Series Statement

• Studies and texts ; 215
• Text, image, context : studies in medieval manuscript illumination ; 7

Uniform Title

• Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) ; 215.
• Text, image, context ; 7.

Subject

• 500-1500
• Christian art and symbolism > France > Medieval, 500-1500
• Christian art and symbolism > Medieval
• Christianity and art > France > History > Medieval, 500-1500
• Devotion
• France
• Gautier, de Coinci, 1177?-1236 > Criticism and interpretation
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Themes, motives
• Jean, de Vignay, approximately 1284- > Criticism and interpretation
• Manuscripts, Medieval > France
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Art
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > France
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
• Miélot, Jean, active 15th century > Criticism and interpretation
• Miracles in art
• Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Genre/Form

• Art.
• History.

Note

• Expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Miracles of the Virgin Mary, Marian images, and their contexts -- Miraculous Marian images in Gautier de Coinci's Les Miracles de Nostre Dame -- The power of visuality: miracles of the Virgin in La Vie des Pères -- A visual encyclopedia with miraculous Marian images: Jean de Vignay's Miroir historial -- Exceptional fourteenth-century creations: miraculous Marian images in the Ci nous dit and the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages -- Illusionism enters the picture: Jean Miélot's Version of the Miracles de Nostre Dame -- Appendix 1: Three miracles by Gautier de Coinci -- Appendix 2: Principal manuscripts.

ISBN

• 0888442157
• 9781771103961 (canceled/invalid)
• 1771103965 (canceled/invalid)

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries