Date of Award
2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Carrasco, Malena
Keywords
Religion, MS Edgerton 1821, Blood, Devotional Imagery, Art History, Manuscript
Area of Concentration
Art History
Abstract
British Library MS Egerton 1821 is a rare example of late medieval devotion. It opens with three black folios, each dotted with large globules of red paint. Eight later folios are colored carmine and covered in small, relief-like bleeding wounds. Four woodcuts, depicting the Madonna lactans, the arma Christi, the Man of Sorrows, and the Five Holy Wounds, have been affixed to the manuscript’s vellum folios. For this thesis, I explore Egerton 1821’s bleeding pages and integrated woodcuts, using them to open a discussion of the devotion to Christ’s abstracted, disembodied side wound. I interpret this isolated wound as baptismal and eucharistical fountain, as body, as mouth, and as passageway.
Recommended Citation
Vincent, Margaret, "CHRIST’S BLOOD AND THE SIDE WOUND AS FOUNTAIN, BODY, MOUTH, AND DOOR: LATE MEDIEVAL DEVOTIONAL IMAGERY IN BRITISH LIBRARY MS EGERTON 1821" (2014). Theses & ETDs. 4958.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/4958