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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 164, no. 2 (2022) 1–25., 2022

2018

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Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 1995

Studies in Medievalism 15 , 2006

"The story known most often as either Le Tumbeor Nostre Dame (Our Lady's Tumbler) or Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame (The juggler or The jongleur of Notre Dame) has be~n a minor but enduring component of Western European and American culture since the' late nineteenth century. Whereas most medieval narratives that have exercised much influence have been familiar at least intermittently since Romanticism or even earlier, this one attracted note only from 1873. But fro in that year it has occupied a place continuously in literature, as well as eventually in art, music, radio, television, and cinema. Its reception for the first few decades owed to its innate qualities, to particularities of the historical circumstances that would have predisposed audiences to the meanings they detected in it, and to the serendipity that a host of major scholars, authors, composers, performers, and artists gravitated to it and reworked it. Over ·the past half century, it has benefited from sporadic reworkings in high culture, but it has also earned a niche in mass culture, where information about its medieval origins has often become blurred. Tracking the varied fate of Le Tumbeor Nostre Dame (as I will designate the medieval tale) allows major insights not only into the reception of medieval tales but also into the very nature of story."

„Acta Ethnographica Hungarica”, 2019

Table of Contents of The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity, Volume 1: The Middle Ages.

2020

Review by James H. S. McGregor of The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity six-volume series. The review appeared in the April 2020 issue of Speculum (95.2).

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Art and Mysticism: Interfaces in the Medieval and Modern Periods, ed. Louise Nelstrop & Helen Appleton, London, Routledge, 2018 ( Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism), p. 186-196

From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide a means through which to find God, they also held mystical potential. Likewise, mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God that refract and reflect His glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology. This book features contributions from leading international academics, and is divided into four sections. The first section offers theoretical and philosophical considerations of mystical aesthetics and the interplay between mysticism and art. The final three sections investigate this interplay between the arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The purpose of this volume is to explore the rarely considered yet crucial interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore an important and illuminating collection that will appeal to scholars of theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who study literature, the arts and art history. Helen Appleton is a Career Development Fellow in Early Medieval English at Balliol College, Oxford. She has published on early medieval poetry and hagiography, and is also a co-organiser of The Oxford Psalms Network. Her principal research area is the relationship between religious devotion and the environment in Anglo-Saxon England.