The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture : With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle' (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction: Arma Christi: the material culture of the Passion, Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny Brown; The Arma Christi before the Arma Christi: rhetorics of the Passion in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, Mary Agnes Edsall; Figure and ground: Elene’s nails, Cynewulf’s runes, and Hrabanus Maurus’s painted poems, Seeta Chaganti; Mapping virtual pilgrimage in an early 15th-century Arma Christi roll, Richard G. Newhauser and Arthur J. Russell; The footprints of Christ as Arma Christi: the evidence of Morgan B.54, Ann Eljenholm Nichols; The Arma Christi and the ethics of reckoning, Martha Rust; Memorial technai, St Thomas the Twin, and British Library MS Additional 22029, Ann W. Astell; Arma Christi as landscape in Hieronymus Bosch’s Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child, Suzanne Verderber; Liturgy and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: reframing the Arma Christi, Lee Palmer Wandel; The Arma Christi in medieval and early modern Ireland, Salvador Ryan; Early modern afterlives of the Arma Christi, Shannon Gayk; O Vernicle: a critical edition, Ann Eljenholm Nichols; Index.