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The Image and the Figure : Our Lady of Czêstochowa in Polish Culture and Popular Religion.
The image of Our Lady of Czêstochowa is the most famous and the most venerated holy image in Poland. In contemporary Poland the image is a kind of a cultural icon, instantly recognizable and connected with popular symbolic and mythological meanings. Presented in this book is an analysis of beliefs,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Polaco |
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Kraków :
Jagiellonian University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations; List of tables and appendices; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I. STORIES OF ORIGIN; 1. What is acheiropoietos?; 2. The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa as acheiropoietos; 3. The oldest legends about the image and how it cameto Jasna Góra; 4. Translations of the image
- variations of texts; 5. The contemporary legends of origin; 6. The great story as a contemporary etiological legend; Chapter II. THE WOUNDED IMAGE; 1. The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa as a woundedpicture.
- 2. Changes within the oldest legends concerning the woundingof the image3. The meanings attributed to the attack of 1430; 4. The contemporary tale of the wounding of the image; 5. The bleeding and weeping of images; 6. "The wounds are elongating"; 7. The symbolism of the wounds in the underground art of the 1980s; 8. The wounds in the transitory poetry of the 1980s; 9. "Wounded and Black"; Chapter III. QUEEN OF THE NATION; 1. The myth of the miraculous defense in European culture; 2. The miraculous defense of the Jasna Góra Monastery; 3. Contemporary memory of the defense.
- 4. The miraculous defense and the story of the wounding5. The coronation of 1717 and the title of Queen; 6. The Miracle on the Vistula; 7. Miraculous defense in stories about World War II; 8. The great story as a national myth; 9. Jasna Góra
- the spiritual capital of Poland; 10. Queen and Mother
- a documentation of one exhibition; Chapter IV. THE IMAGE-FIGURE IN LIVED RELIGION; 1. Sensual non-differentiation; 2. "Countenance"; 3. "Mother"; 4. Mater Dolorosa; 5. Miraculous consciousness; 6. Peregrination of the image-fi gure; 7. "A Guest in the home."
- 8. The figure without the image
- the peregrination of an emptyframeEpilogue story; APPENDIX. Chronology of the events connected witha peregrination of the copy of the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland; Selected bibliography; Index.