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Note to the Reader
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3
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Preface
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5
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Overture
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5
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The Story of a Story
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6
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From Our Lady’s Tumbler to The Jongleur of Notre Dame
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9
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1.
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The Medieval Beginnings of Our Lady’s Tumbler
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17
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The French Poem
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17
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The Manuscripts
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22
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Gautier de Coinci and Anonymity
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25
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Picardy
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33
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The Identity of the Poet
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34
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The Bas-de-Page Miniature: Of Marginal Interest
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38
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The Genre: Long Story Short
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54
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The Table of Exempla, in Alphabetical Order
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57
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The Latin Exemplum
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59
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The Life of the Fathers
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63
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True Story: Why the Story Succeeded
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69
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2.
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Dancing for God
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73
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The Tumbler
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73
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Notre Dame versus Saint Mary
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75
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The Equivocal Status of Jongleurs
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79
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Trance Dance
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90
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Jongleurs of God
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96
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Holy Fools
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99
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Fact or Fiction?
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102
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3.
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Cistercian Monks and Lay Brothers
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117
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The Order of Cîteaux
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117
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Cistercians and the Virgin
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125
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Mother’s Milk
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131
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Mary’s Head-Coverings
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133
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Cistercian Lay Brothers
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140
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Conversion Therapy
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146
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The Language of Silence
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149
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Gym Clothes
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153
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Sweat Cloth
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158
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The Weighing of Souls
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162
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The Latin-Less Lay Brother and Our Lady
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166
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4.
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Reformation Endings: A Temporary Vanishing Act
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171
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What Makes a Story Popular?
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171
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Walsingham, England’s Nazareth
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177
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Madonnas of the World Wars
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186
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Literary Iconoclasm
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192
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Marian Apparitions
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196
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5.
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A Troupe of Sources and Analogues
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203
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King David’s Dancing
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204
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The Widow’s Mites
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210
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The Virgin’s Miraculous Images and Apparitions
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216
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The Jongleur of Rocamadour
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218
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The Holy Candle of Arras
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225
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The Pious Sweat of Monks and Lay Brothers
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232
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The Love of Statuesque Beauty
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235
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The Holy Face of Christ and Virgin Saints
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237
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Notes
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247
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Notes to Preface
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247
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Notes to Chapter 1
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249
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Notes to Chapter 2
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267
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Notes to Chapter 3
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288
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Notes to Chapter 4
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305
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Notes to Chapter 5
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315
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Bibliography
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335
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Abbreviations
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335
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Referenced Works
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335
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List of Illustrations
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377
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Index
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387
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