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The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image (Hardcover)
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The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image (Hardcover)
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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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