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Mary Dzon

University of Tennessee Knoxville, English, Faculty Member

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Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; affiliate of the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; author of _The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages_, The Middle Ages Series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017); co-editor (with Theresa M. Kenney) of _The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!_ (University of Toronto Press, 2012).

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Birds, worms, rabbits: Francis of Assisi was said to have loved them all -- but today's pet blessings on his feast day might have seemed strange to the 13th century saint

Appendix: Summary of William Caxton’s Infantia salvatoris (c. 1477)

"Affective Piety"

_The Chaucer Encyclopedia_, ed. Richard G. Newhauser et al., 4 vols. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell), I: 22-25., 2023

Review of _Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages_, edited by Jane Beal (Brill, 2019)

Medievalia et Humanistica, 2022

Review of Maureen Boulton, _Sacred Fictions of Medieval France: Narrative Theology in the Lives of Christ and the Virgin, 1150-1500_ (D.S. Brewer, 2015), in The Medieval Review 16.05.17.

The Medieval Review, 2016

"Introduction: Recovering Christ-Child Images," in _The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages_

"Introduction: Recovering Christ-Child Images", 2017

Review of McAvoy, Liz Herbert, ed., trans. A Revelation of Purgatory. Library of Medieval Women. Woodbridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2017.

"Manger, I. Christianity, Medieval Times

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 17, 2019

Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney, "Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child," in _The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!_, edited by Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. xiii-xxii.

by Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney

"Margery Kempe's Ravishment into the Childhood of Christ," Mediaevalia 27.2 (2007): 27-57.

"Holy Family (Christian)," in _Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception_, ed. Christine Helmer, et al. (Walter de Gruyter, 2016 ), vol. 12, cols. 121-126.

The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, The Middle Ages Series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

"Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's Clothing," in _The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!_, edited by Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney (University of Toronto Press, 2012), 117-144.

"Out of Egypt, Into England: Tales of the Good Thief for Medieval English Audiences," in _Devotional Culture in Late Medieval England and Europe: Diverse Imaginations of Christ's Life_, edited by Stephen Kelly and Ryan Perry (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 147-241.

Diverse Imaginations of Christ’s Life, 2014

"Conflicting Notions of Pietas in Walter of Wimborne's Marie Carmina," Journal of Medieval Latin 15 (2005): 67-92.

The Journal of Medieval Latin, 2005

"Cecily Neville and the Apocryphal Infantia Salvatoris in the Middle Ages," Mediaeval Studies 71 (2009): 235-300.

Mediaeval Studies, 2009

"Joseph and the Amazing Christ-Child of Late-Medieval Legend," in Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality, edited by Albrecht Classen (Walter de Gruyter, 2005), pp. 135-157.

The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality

Manuscript cited: Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, SP II 64

"Jesus and the Birds in Medieval Abrahamic Traditions," Traditio 66 (2011): 189-230, Figures 1-6.

Traditio

Manuscripts cited: Eton, Eton College Library MS 96 Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS... more Manuscripts cited:
Eton, Eton College Library MS 96
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Orientale n. 387
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, SP II 64
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.268
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Selden Supra 38
Paris, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, MS 5070
Paris, BNF, fr. 922
Paris, BNF, lat. 2688
Paris, BNF, lat. 11867
Vatican City, BAV, Ms lat. 4578

"Boys Will Be Boys: The Physiology of Childhood and the Apocryphal Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages," Viator 42.1 (2011): 179-225.

Viator, 2011

"Wanton Boys in Middle English Texts and the Christ Child in Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, MS Z822 N81," in _Medieval Life Cycles: Continuities and Change_, edited by Karen Smyth and Isabelle Cochelin (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 81-145.

Continuity and Change, 2013

Birds, worms, rabbits: Francis of Assisi was said to have loved them all -- but today's pet blessings on his feast day might have seemed strange to the 13th century saint

Appendix: Summary of William Caxton’s Infantia salvatoris (c. 1477)

"Affective Piety"

_The Chaucer Encyclopedia_, ed. Richard G. Newhauser et al., 4 vols. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell), I: 22-25., 2023

Review of _Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages_, edited by Jane Beal (Brill, 2019)

Medievalia et Humanistica, 2022

Review of Maureen Boulton, _Sacred Fictions of Medieval France: Narrative Theology in the Lives of Christ and the Virgin, 1150-1500_ (D.S. Brewer, 2015), in The Medieval Review 16.05.17.

The Medieval Review, 2016

"Introduction: Recovering Christ-Child Images," in _The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages_

"Introduction: Recovering Christ-Child Images", 2017

Review of McAvoy, Liz Herbert, ed., trans. A Revelation of Purgatory. Library of Medieval Women. Woodbridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2017.

"Manger, I. Christianity, Medieval Times

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 17, 2019

Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney, "Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child," in _The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!_, edited by Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. xiii-xxii.

by Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney

"Margery Kempe's Ravishment into the Childhood of Christ," Mediaevalia 27.2 (2007): 27-57.

"Holy Family (Christian)," in _Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception_, ed. Christine Helmer, et al. (Walter de Gruyter, 2016 ), vol. 12, cols. 121-126.

The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, The Middle Ages Series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

"Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's Clothing," in _The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!_, edited by Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney (University of Toronto Press, 2012), 117-144.

"Out of Egypt, Into England: Tales of the Good Thief for Medieval English Audiences," in _Devotional Culture in Late Medieval England and Europe: Diverse Imaginations of Christ's Life_, edited by Stephen Kelly and Ryan Perry (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 147-241.

Diverse Imaginations of Christ’s Life, 2014

"Conflicting Notions of Pietas in Walter of Wimborne's Marie Carmina," Journal of Medieval Latin 15 (2005): 67-92.

The Journal of Medieval Latin, 2005

"Cecily Neville and the Apocryphal Infantia Salvatoris in the Middle Ages," Mediaeval Studies 71 (2009): 235-300.

Mediaeval Studies, 2009

"Joseph and the Amazing Christ-Child of Late-Medieval Legend," in Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality, edited by Albrecht Classen (Walter de Gruyter, 2005), pp. 135-157.

The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality

Manuscript cited: Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, SP II 64

"Jesus and the Birds in Medieval Abrahamic Traditions," Traditio 66 (2011): 189-230, Figures 1-6.

Traditio

Manuscripts cited: Eton, Eton College Library MS 96 Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS... more Manuscripts cited:
Eton, Eton College Library MS 96
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Orientale n. 387
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, SP II 64
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.268
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Selden Supra 38
Paris, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, MS 5070
Paris, BNF, fr. 922
Paris, BNF, lat. 2688
Paris, BNF, lat. 11867
Vatican City, BAV, Ms lat. 4578

"Boys Will Be Boys: The Physiology of Childhood and the Apocryphal Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages," Viator 42.1 (2011): 179-225.

Viator, 2011

"Wanton Boys in Middle English Texts and the Christ Child in Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, MS Z822 N81," in _Medieval Life Cycles: Continuities and Change_, edited by Karen Smyth and Isabelle Cochelin (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 81-145.

Continuity and Change, 2013