Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to the Reader -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- Part 1: Christus Patiens -- Chapter 1. History, Conversion, and the Saxon Christ -- Converting the Pagans -- Translating the Savior -- The Miracle of God's Speaking -- The "Paschasian" Christ -- Chapter 2. Apocalypse, Reform, and the Suffering Savior -- Waiting for the Apocalypse -- The Coming of Christ in Judgment -- Signed with the Cross -- A Priesthood Apart -- "The Whole Church Believes" -- Chapter 3. Praying to the Crucified Christ -- Adoring God on the Cross -- Writing on the Tablets of the Heart -- Why God Became Man -- Part 2: Maria Compatiens -- Introduction -- Chapter 4. Praying to the Mother of the Crucified Judge -- Grieving Without Tears -- "O Glorious Domina" -- "My Heart Is Sick with Love" -- Chapter 5. The seal of the Mother Bride -- Impressing the Soft Wax of the Memory -- The Sweet Songs of the Drama -- "I Will Be a Wall for Them" -- Queenly Favors -- Chapter 6. The Voice of my Beloved, Knocking -- Figures and Shadows -- "I Sleep and My Heart Keeps Watch" -- The Song of the Incarnation -- "My Belly Trembled at His Touch" -- Reading and Singing -- Chapter 7. Once upon a Time … -- A Bride Foreseen -- Trumpets of God -- A Modest and Spiritual Fabula -- Love of the Flesh -- "Come, My Chosen One" -- Chapter 8. Commoriens, Commortua, Consepulta -- John 11:35: "Et Lacrymatus Est Iesus" -- Scrutinizing Lofty Matters -- The Song of the Virgin Mother to the Lamb -- "Our Bed Is Flowery" -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Scriptural Citations -- Index of Manuscripts Cited -- General Index.