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Cover 1 Series Information 3 Copyright Information 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Acknowledgements 14 Introduction 16 Ridicule or Reverence? A History of Scholarship on St. Joseph 23 Sanctity, Humor, and the Gap between Material Reality and Religious ­Experience 30 Works Cited 35 1. Joseph’s Hosen, Devotion, and Humor: The ‘Domestic’ Saint and the Earliest ­Material ­Evidence of his Cult 38 1.1 Introduction: Rethinking ‘Higher’ Levels of Literature and Art 38 1.2 Joseph’s Hosen and Early Material Evidence of his Cult 43 1.2.1 The Ivories 52 1.2.2 The Power of Relics in Fourteenth-Century Europe 55 1.2.3 The Hosen and Humor in Royal Commissions: The Antwerp-Baltimore Polyptych of Philip the Bold 58 1.3 Nutritor Domini and Bumbling Old Fool: The Hamburg Petri-Altar 64 1.3.1 The Kindelwiegenspiele 79 1.4 Conclusion 84 Works Cited 85 2. Satire Sacred and Profane 92 2.1 Introduction: Laughter as Veneration 92 2.2 From the Margins to the Center: Humor and the ‘World Upside Down’ in Sacred Art and Ritual 95 2.3 Diaper-Washer Josephs and the ‘Battle for the Pants’ 104 2.4 Joseph, the Ass, the Peasant, and the Fool 110 2.5 Complexities of Early Modern Humor: The Virtue of th

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Anne L. Williams;

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