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Contents

Note to the Reader

3

1.

Juggling across Print

5

Printed Books as Pseudomanuscripts

11

Image-Makers Go Mainstream

13

Missal Attack

37

Handwriting the Medieval

45

Typing a Translation

52

Medieval French for Amateurs

55

A One-Novel French Novelist

56

French Language-Study

59

2.

Juggling across New Media

63

Making a Spectacle of Miracle

64

Sister Beatrice

71

Sister Angelica

86

Audio Recording

87

Silent Film

91

Charlie Chaplin: Tramp Meets Tumbler

92

3.

Juggling across Faiths

95

The Ecumenical Juggler

95

The Hasidic Whistle-Blower

100

The Jewish Jongleur

104

The Catholic Juggler

108

The Juggler and the Paulines

114

Two Bills: Buckley Jr. and Bennett

116

The Lyric Juggler and Patrick Kavanagh

119

“The Chapel at Mountain State Mental Hospital”

124

4.

The Yuletide Juggler

127

Easter Tumbling

127

The Commercial Aesthetic of “Ye Olde”

129

Noel Juggling: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

144

The Juggler in Holiday Books and Cards

154

Amateur Theater

161

Mass Radio

165

Mid-Century Medieval US Television

172

Postwar Britain

174

The French Connection

177

Juggler Film

179

Juggler Christmas Books Live On

180

Related Stories of the Season

183

5.

Children’s Juggler and Child Juggler

193

Suitable for Children

193

Downsizing the Juggler

199

American Children’s Literature

204

European Children’s Literature

213

Global Children’s Entertainment

227

Folktale or Faketale?

229

Tomie dePaola’s The Clown of God

238

Notes

247

Notes to Chapter 1

247

Notes to Chapter 2

269

Notes to Chapter 3

280

Notes to Chapter 4

293

Notes to Chapter 5

321

Bibliography

345

Abbreviations

345

Referenced Works

345

List of Illustrations

369

Index

385