Medieval laments of the Virgin Mary : text, music, performance, and genre liminality /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kubartová, Eliška (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2023]
Series:Early social performance.
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Songs and music.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint.
500-1400
Music > 500-1400 > History and criticism.
Laments > History and criticism.
Civilization, Medieval.
DRAMA / Medieval
Music.
Laments.
Electronic books.
Songs and music.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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