Intro -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Preface -- Overture -- The Story of a Story -- From Our Lady's Tumbler to The Jongleur of Notre Dame -- 1. The Medieval Beginnings of Our Lady's Tumbler -- The French Poem -- The Manuscripts -- Gautier de Coinci and Anonymity -- Picardy -- The Identity of the Poet -- The Bas-de-Page Miniature: Of Marginal Interest -- The Genre: Long Story Short -- The Table of Exempla, in Alphabetical Order -- The Latin Exemplum -- The Life of the Fathers -- True Story: Why the Story Succeeded -- 2. Dancing for God -- The Tumbler -- Notre Dame versus Saint Mary -- The Equivocal Status of Jongleurs -- Trance Dance -- Jongleurs of God -- Holy Fools -- Fact or Fiction? -- 3. Cistercian Monks and Lay Brothers -- The Order of C�iteaux -- Cistercians and the Virgin -- Mother's Milk -- Mary's Head-Coverings -- Cistercian Lay Brothers -- Conversion Therapy -- The Language of Silence -- Gym Clothes -- Sweat Cloth -- The Weighing of Souls -- The Latin-Less Lay Brother and Our Lady -- 4. Reformation Endings: A Temporary Vanishing Act -- What Makes a Story Popular? -- Walsingham, England's Nazareth -- Madonnas of the World Wars -- Literary Iconoclasm -- Marian Apparitions -- 5. A Troupe of Sources and Analogues -- King David's Dancing -- The Widow's Mites -- The Virgin's Miraculous Images and Apparitions -- The Jongleur of Rocamadour -- The Holy Candle of Arras -- The Pious Sweat of Monks and Lay Brothers -- The Love of Statuesque Beauty -- The Holy Face of Christ and Virgin Saints -- Notes -- Notes to Preface -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Referenced Works -- List of Illustrations -- Note to the Reader -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Notes -- Index.

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