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Medieval Laments of the Virgin Mary : Text, Music, Performance, and Genre Liminality / Eliška Kubartová Poláčková.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early Social PerformancePublisher: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781802700787
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780.9/02 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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