Reprint

The Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Devotion and Iconography

Edited by
June 2023
276 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-7789-0 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-7788-3 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue The Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Devotion and Iconography that was published in

Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary

This reprint aims to investigate some of the numerous ways in which Christianity venerated and represented the Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Fifteen researchers in various areas of the Arts and Humanities have brought together here their efforts to address in part this inexhaustible objective. The reprint is divided into two main parts. In one of them, composed of six chapters, we study some of the several ways in which the Christian faithful rendered worship and devotion to the Virgin Mary during the more than one thousand years under consideration. The other part, made up of seven chapters, analyzes various iconographic manifestations through which medieval and Renaissance Christians made their devotion to the mother of Christ visible in pictorial or sculptural forms. Therefore, this reprint will be very useful not only for specialists in Christian studies, especially in Marian themes but also for those interested in the development of the societies and cultures of medieval and Renaissance Europe.

Format
  • Hardback
License and Copyright
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
Mariology; Marian iconography; Mary’s divine motherhood; Annunciation; theological sources; doctrinal symbol; John Duns Scotus; medieval theology; God’s eternal plan; the dogma of the Immaculate Conception; Virgin Mary; free will; Thomism; Mariology; Camino de Santiago; medieval pilgrimage; cult of saints; Mozarabic rite; chant; responsory; sequence; Virgin Mary; Sainte-Foy at Conques; relief sculpture; Annunciation; Virgin Mary; divine motherhood; perpetual virginity; Mariology; liturgical hymns; Renaissance art; Virgin Mary; virtues; virginity; medieval women; liturgy; medieval music; medieval art; Hildegard of Bingen; Scivias; Christianity; Christology; Mariology; Martin Luther; justification; theology of the Cross; suffering; iconography; Lucas Cranach the Elder; St. Bernard of Clairvaux; mariology; beauty; medieval aesthetics; medieval philosophy; Dormition of the Theotokos; Dormition iconography; mandorla; Glory of God; Byzantine art; post-Byzantine art; the Virgin of the Girdle; troper-proser; sequence; liturgical song; medieval devotion; medieval music; miracles; Tortosa; annunciation; erotic symbolism; mystical wedding; political theology; sacred play; Nursing Madonna; Madonna of Humility; Eve; Mary; breastfeeding; virginity; redemption; Marian miracles; Gautier de Coinci; Illuminated Manuscripts; miraculous images; medieval visual culture

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