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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Poláčková, Eliška Kubartová,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Early Social Performance
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List Of Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction --; Chapter One --; Chapter Two --; Chapter Three --; Chapter Four --; Appendix --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781802700787; 9783111023748; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319186; 9783111318264
• DOI: 10.1515/9781802700787?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eliška Kubartová Poláčková.

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.