Marian Laments From Medieval Bohemia: Performing Suffering and Redemption Through Compassion

0549536 - FLÚ 2022 RIV BE eng J - Journal Article
Kubartová, Eliška
Marian Laments From Medieval Bohemia: Performing Suffering and Redemption Through Compassion.
European Medieval Drama. -, č. 25 (2021), s. 65-90. ISSN 1378-2274. E-ISSN 2031-0064
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Marian Planct * Marian Lament * Planctus Mariae * Passional of Abbess Kunigunde * medieval literary performance * Passion * compassion
OECD category: Specific literatures
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1484/J.EMD.5.125678

The paper presents several items from the Bohemian corpus of Marian laments from the fourteenth century that has not been yet introduced to international scholarly debate concerning the genre. The Latin planctus Mariae in the Passionale of Abbess Kunigunde, Old Czech Lament of Virgin Mary in the Manuscript from Hradec Králové, and two shorter Old Czech verse laments, Šafařík Planct and Planct from Roudnice, are discussed in the context of medieval affective piety and with regard to their performative aspects, i.e. various forms of their presentation and reception (singing, declamation, theatrical[ized] performance) and the physical handling of the manuscripts they were originally part of, such as touching or kissing the texts and pictures that accompanied them on the foils.
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