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

• Autores: Eliska Polácková
• Localización: European Medieval Drama, ISSN 1378-2274, ISSN-e 2031-0064, Nº. 25, 2021, págs. 65-90
• Idioma: varios idiomas
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  • 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 Kralove, and two shorter Old Czech verse laments, Šafařik 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.