Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple 9780226820767, 9780226822129, 0226820769

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Curious Case of the Apple
1. The Missing Apple
2. A Bad Latin Apple
3. The Iconographic Apple
4. The Vernacular Apple
Conclusion: A Scholarly Reflection
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Inventory of Fall of Man Scenes
Early Christian, Byzantine, and Carolingian
France before 1250
France after 1250
Germany, England, and the Low Countries before 1250
Germany, England, and the Low Countries after 1250
Italy and Spain before 1250
Italy and Spain after 1250
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Color plates

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