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From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul

Understanding Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

By: Donna Spivey Ellington

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From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul

Understanding Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

By: Donna Spivey Ellington

Through an insightful examination of popular sermons by some of the most famous preachers of the day, Donna Spivey Ellington discusses the importance of Marian devotion to the religious understanding of European Christians in the late medieval and early modern periods. She charts a dramatic shift of emphasis in the public portrayal of the Virgin Mary from the 15th through 17th centuries. As Europe experienced the impact of printing and increased literacy, the Protestant Reformation, the growing development of individualism and a private sense of self, and changing attitudes to women, Marian devotion was also transformed. The Church's portrait of the Virgin gradually became focused less on her body and more on her soul.

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0813210143

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From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul

Understanding Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

By: Donna Spivey Ellington

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Understanding Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne

By: Donna L. Sadler

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Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne

By: Donna L. Sadler

Grief binds the worshipers together in an adagio of sorrow as they encounter the sculptural representation of the Entombment of Christ. Located in funerary chapels, parish churches, cemeteries, and hospitals, these works embody the piety of the later Middle Ages. In this book, Donna Sadler examines the sculptural Entombments from Burgundy and Champagne through a variety of lenses, including performance theory, embodied perception, and the invocation of the absent presence of the Holy Sepulcher. The author demonstrates how the action of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus entombing Christ in the presence of the Marys and John operates in a commemorative and collective fashion: the worshiper enters the realm of the holy and becomes a participant in the biblical event.

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BRILL

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9004293140

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9789004293144

Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith

By: Donna L. Sadler

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Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith

By: Donna L. Sadler

In Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith, Donna Sadler explores the manner in which worshipers responded to the carved and polychromed retables adorning the altars of their parish churches. Framed by the symbolic death of Christ re-enacted during the Mass, the historical account of the Passion on the retable situated Christ’s suffering and triumph over death in the present. The dramatic gestures, contemporary garb, and wealth of anecdotal detail on the altarpiece, invited the viewer’s absorption in the narrative. As in the Imitatio Christi, the worshiper imaginatively projected himself into the story like a child before a dollhouse. The five senses, the sculptural medium, the small scale, and the rhetoric of memory foster this immersion.

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9004364374

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Book's by Donna Spivey Ellington

From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul

From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul

From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul

From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul

Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne

Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne

Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith

Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith

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