Contents // Illustrations...vii // Colour Plates... xiii // Preface...xvii // Introduction // PIPPA SALONIUS and ANDREA WORM...1 // Stirps Jesse in capite ecclesiae: Iconographic and Liturgical Readings of the Tree of Jesse in Stained-Glass Windows // MARIE-PIERRE GELIN...13 // Arbor autem hurnanurn genus significat-. // Trees of Genealogy and Sacred History in the Twelfth Century // ANDREA WORM...35 // Arbor genealogiae: Manifestations of the Tree in French Royal Genealogies // MARIGOLD ANNE NORBYE...69 // The Medieval Tree of Porphyry: An Organic Structure of Logic // ANNEMIEKE R. VERBOON...95 // Visualizing Salvation: The Role of Arboreal Imagery in the Speculum humanae salvationis (Kremsmünster, Library or the Convent, Cod. 243) // SUSANNE WITTEKIND...117 // Two Trees in Paradise? A Case Study on the Iconography of the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree or Lire in Italian Romanesque Sculpture // UTEDERCKS...143 // The Tree as Narrative, Formal, and Allegorical Index in Representations of the Noli me tangere // BARBARA BAERT and LIESBET KÜSTERS...159 // Quasi lignum vitae: The Tree of Life as an Image of Mendicant Identity // ULRIKE ILG...187 // Arbor Jesse - Lignum vitae: The Tree of Jesse, the Tree of Life, and the Mendicants in Late Medieval Orvieto // PIPPA SALONIUS...213 // Select Bibliography...243 // Index...249