Article: Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts.(Book review)

doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001698

Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts. Edited by Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. xx 492 pp. $116.00 cloth.

Like the divine circle whose center is everywhere, the Virgin Mary pervades medieval culture. But how did the majestic Theotokos of the early Middle Ages, patron of emperors and role model for nuns, evolve into the late medieval smiling Madonna and indulgent friend to sinners? Part of the answer must lie in the work of Gautier de Coinci and those like him. Gautier (ca. 1177-1236), prior of a Benedictine monastery near Soissons, ...

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