Medieval Laments of the Virgin Mary
Text, Music, Performance, and Genre Liminality
Seiten
2023
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New edition
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
9781641894562 (ISBN)
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
9781641894562 (ISBN)
A study of medieval Marian laments, a performative genre that offered clerical and lay audiences a deeply inspiring devotional experience.
Laments of the Virgin Mary represent a devotional genre that offered its clerical and lay audiences of the High and Late Middle Ages a deeply inspiring, yet at the same time ambiguous, religious experience. Through the deeply emotional and markedly animated representation of the Passion, seen as if through the eyes of the mother of God, audiences and performers were not only reminded of the redemptive power of the Cross, but encouraged to experience Christ’s sacrifice in a more personal and intimate manner. In the pious practice of imitatio Mariae, believers mirrored the sorrow of the mother through their own bodies in order to develop a kind of visceral empathy towards, and hence a deeper understanding of, the divine.
Laments of the Virgin Mary represent a devotional genre that offered its clerical and lay audiences of the High and Late Middle Ages a deeply inspiring, yet at the same time ambiguous, religious experience. Through the deeply emotional and markedly animated representation of the Passion, seen as if through the eyes of the mother of God, audiences and performers were not only reminded of the redemptive power of the Cross, but encouraged to experience Christ’s sacrifice in a more personal and intimate manner. In the pious practice of imitatio Mariae, believers mirrored the sorrow of the mother through their own bodies in order to develop a kind of visceral empathy towards, and hence a deeper understanding of, the divine.
Eliška Kubartová (née Poláčková) is researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences and Assistant Professor at the Palacký University Olomouc.
Preface
Introduction: The Suffering of the Virgin as an Inner Drama
Chapter One: Marian Lament and Medieval Piety
Chapter Two: Genre, Mediality, and Aesthetics
Chapter Three: Modes of Performance
Chapter Four: Bohemian Laments: Feeling Like a Woman, Thinking Like a Man. Or Not?
Appendix: Bohemian Laments—Excerpts
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.10.2022 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Early Social Performance |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 Illustrations, black and white; 2 Illustrations, color |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781641894562 / 9781641894562 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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