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050 00 $aBT153.S8$bR67 1997
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100 1 $aRoss, Ellen M.,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91112585
245 14 $aThe grief of God :$bimages of the suffering Jesus in late medieval England /$cEllen M. Ross.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1997.
300 $axiii, 200 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-190) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Dynamics of Divine Appeal: The Suffering Jesus in the Literature of Spiritual Guidance.$tSermons and Spiritual Guidance Literature.$tImitation of Jesus Christ in the Lives of Individual Believers: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Spiritual Anguish --$g2.$tThe Aesthetics of Suffering: Figuring the Crucified Jesus in Manuscripts and Wall Paintings.$tPsalters, Missals, and Books of Hours.$tWall Paintings --$g3.$tDramas of Divine Compassion: The Figure of the Wounded Jesus and the Rhetoric of Appeal in the Mystery Plays.$tTestimony to the Immensity of Divine Love.$tResponse to the Immensity of Divine Love --$g4.$tBody, Power, and Mimesis: Holy Women as Purveyors of Divine Presence.$tWomen's Bodies as Inscriptions of Divine Love: Margaret of Antioch and Katherine of Alexandria.$tAn Athlete of the Passion of Christ: Elizabeth of Spalbeek.$tThe Body as Parable of Divine Sorrow: Margery Kempe.
520 $aGraphic portrayals of the suffering Jesus Christ pervade late medieval English art, literature, drama, and theology. These images have been interpreted as signs of a new emphasis on the humanity of Jesus. To others they indicate a fascination with a terrifying God of vengeance and a morbid obsession with death. In The Grief of God, however, Ellen Ross offers a different understanding of the purpose of this imagery and its meaning to the people of the time.
520 8 $aAnalyzing a wide range of textual and pictorial evidence, the author finds that the bleeding flesh of the wounded Savior manifests divine presence; in the intensified corporeality of the suffering Jesus whose flesh not only condemns, but also nurtures, heals, and feeds, believers meet a trinitarian God of mercy.
520 8 $aRoss explores the rhetoric of transformation common to English medieval artistic, literary, and devotional sources. The extravagant depictions of pain and anguish, the author shows, constitute an urgent appeal to respond to Jesus' expression of love. She also explains how the inscribing of Christ's pain on the bodies of believers at times erased the boundaries between human and divine so that holy persons, and in particular, holy women, participated in the transformative power of Christ.
520 8 $aThis interdisciplinary study of sermon literature, manuscript illuminations and church wall paintings, drama, hagiographic narratives, and spiritual treatises illuminates the religious sensibilities, practices, and beliefs that constellate around the late medieval fascination with the bleeding body of the suffering Jesus Christ.
650 0 $aSuffering of God$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500.
650 0 $aGod$xMercy$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500.
600 00 $aJesus Christ$xCrucifixion$xArt.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070004
650 0 $aChristian art and symbolism$zEngland$yMedieval, 500-1500.
650 0 $aChristian literature, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100656
651 0 $aEngland$xChurch history$y1066-1485.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043265
852 00 $bglx$hBT153.S8$iR67 1997