The Saint Formerly Known as Christ: Some General Lessons for Catholic Historiography from an Obscure Case
Images of the so-called "Sunday Christ," a type of medieval wall painting found in many of England's parish churches, have always been interesting because there are no medieval texts that discuss this image in any precise way. Notwithstanding the lack of textual references to this ima...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
2019
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The catholic historical review
Year: 2019, Volume: 105, Issue: 2, Pages: 251-274 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
/ Catholic church
/ Feiertagschristus
/ History 1350-1550
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| IxTheo Classification: | CE Christian art KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Medieval Catholicism
B Church decoration & ornament B Sunday Christ B St. Sunday B Jesus Christ in art B Christocentrism B England B Catholic Church B Image cults B Church History B CHRISTIAN art & symbolism B Medieval painting |
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| Summary: | Images of the so-called "Sunday Christ," a type of medieval wall painting found in many of England's parish churches, have always been interesting because there are no medieval texts that discuss this image in any precise way. Notwithstanding the lack of textual references to this image modern scholarly commentators have used presuppositions derived from Christocentric theology to construct a widely-accepted interpretation of what these images would have "meant" to medieval English Catholics. This article argues, however, that if we rely only on the medieval evidence we have, and in particular on the "St. Sunday" label generally accepted as being associated with these images, then it is possible to construct an entirely plausible - but quite different - interpretation. The article concludes with some general lessons for the study of late medieval Catholicism that go beyond this specific case. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cat.2019.0054 |