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Material Virgin Mary – Liturgy and Devotion. Jonas Carlquist. Medieval devotion. Many texts have been analyzed Liturgical texts (latin) Prayers (latin and vernacular) Saints lives, visions etc. (latin and vernacular) But there are also paintings, sculptures etc…
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Material Virgin Mary – Liturgy and Devotion Jonas Carlquist
Medieval devotion • Many texts have been analyzed • Liturgical texts (latin) • Prayers (latin and vernacular) • Saints lives, visions etc. (latin and vernacular) • But there are also paintings, sculptures etc… • For the unlettered??? (Cf. Walahfrid, De imaginibus et picturis)
Religious texts and images of Virgin Mary • How do they communicate? • In what way? • What kind of models for behaviour and belief do they teach? • Percipimus nos vivere (what we perceive is what we live), Thomas of Aquinas
Meditation and apparitions • Saint Mechthild • Thäntidh sancta mäktildis skulle ga fram, ath kyssa korseth aff gudhelighom jnskiwutilsom, tha sagdhe hon til fotanna saar Se min härra, alla mina astwndan thrykker jak i thik, ok tilfögher allom thinom wila Swa ath jak här äpther wari fwllelica rensath, ok i alle mattho hälghat Ath jak aldrig här äpther maghe wffias j nakro thy som wärdhline til hörer ¶ Än til höghra handinna saar sagdhe härran jhesus til henna, göm här al the thing
An example, Knutby church (Uppland) • 13th century • 15th century rebuild, paintings • New Interior, new objects • Donators: Jakob Ulfsson (archbishop), Bengt Eriksson Tomta, Kerstin Knutsdotter Väsby
Objects • Altarpiece (1425-1450) St Olaf Coronation St Erik
Objects, St Martin (patron), 1450+ St Katarina of Vadstena St Birgitta
The Madonna • INTERTEXT (discourse conventions) • Motherof Christ, incarnation, eucharisty • Virgin Mother (hair), annunciation, visitation, nativity • Queen ofheaven (crowned, clothes), obedience, assumption • Maria ecclesia (gothicchurch) • Woman from the Apocalypse (dressed in sun, twelve stars, stands on the moon) humility (defeatsevil)
A shrine? Liturgical use? Narrative art, Symbolic art Hinges?
Devotion • Heel jomfru, nadhaful stärna, clarare än sool, gudz modher ärofwl, söthare än honogx droppe, rödhare meer än roos, hwitare än lilia, alla dygher pryda tik, änglomen ypparen, all hälgon hedhra tik j hymmerike, thy at thu äst allom höghre, miskunna mik Amen • Heelsat wari thu aldra hälgasta jomfru maria gudz modhir, hymerikes drotningh, paradysi portir wärdinna fru, Thu äst allenast clar jomfru Thu afflade ihesum wtan alla synd, Thu sögde wärldenna skapara, oc frälsara, j hwilko jak ey twäkar, Bidh for mik til ihesum, thin älskelikaste son At han frälse mik aff allo ondo Oc aff allom minom dräffuilsom oc nöd badhe nw oc j dödzsins tima wndsät mik, mildasta jomfru maria gudz födirska Amen