Birth and Childhood Traditions of Jesus and Mary
Art, Texts and Contexts through the Ages
This volume features chapters that trace how different Christian communities received, reworked and disseminated narratives about Jesus’ infancy in literature and art. These studies highlight not only how Christian communities throughout the ages satisfied longstanding curiosities about Jesus’ early life and his family, but also contribute to the construction of Christian identities and practices across diverse times and places. As this book shows, these stories have appeared in languages as varied as Greek, Latin, Armenian, High Middle German and Italian. They have also shaped theological reflection, devotional practice and Christian imagination from antiquity to the present day.
