Resumen de ‘Reality Effect’ in Religious Performances of the Passion: Depositio Crucis, Planctus Mariae, St Vitus Passion Play from Bohemia
This paper addresses the late medieval Passion devotion through the prism of phenomenology and cognitive theory. The concepts of visceral seeing, kinaesthetic empathy, and embodied schema are employed to explain the specific type of mimetic and emotional realism exhibited by various Passion media (texts, images, and performances). The argument is demonstrated on the examples of Marian lament, animated sculptures of Christus Patiens, a Bohemian fragment of the St Vitus Passion Play, and textual and visual representations of the arma Christi.
