scholarly journals A székesfehérvári Szűz Mária prépostság egykori boltozatai

2013 ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Balázs Szőke
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Building Technique ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Provostry and Church of the Virgin Mary (Szűz Mária) at Székesfehérvár went through several reconstructions in the Middle ages. The last significant expansion was initiated by Matthias Corvinus. The late Gothic elements of the Provostry’s vault was found by Imre Henszlmann in the territory of the ruined monument in the 1860’s. The rib vault dating back to the period of Matthias Corvinus was annexed to the buttress built in the angevin era. The construction with internal buttresses could come into existence as a consequence of this fixity in the building technique. examples for this can be found in the Franciscan Church in Szeged-alsóváros, and in several churches in Transylvania.

scholarly journals O ‘Espelho dos Santos’: analogias da Virgem Maria nos sermões de São Vicente Ferrer (1350-1419)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Gustavo Cambraia Franco
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Analogical Thinking ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scholastic Tradition ◽  
The Middle Ages

Resumo: Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar um estudo sobre a exegese bíblica e doutrinária que o frei valenciano tardo-medieval São Vicente Ferrer faz sobre o tema da mariologia. Baseado no caudal da multissecular tradição teológica e literária patrístico-escolástica, na vertente do pensamento analógico e em uma cosmovisão especular e simbólica, o pregador apresenta em seus sermões uma extensa série de analogias, metáforas, alegorias e tipologias bíblicas mediante as quais enaltece a figura da Virgem Maria, e define seu significado como a personagem sagrada universal de devoção na Idade Média. Palavras-chave: São Vicente Ferrer, mariologia, pensamento analógico, exegese bíblica medieval Abstract: This article aims to present a study on the biblical and doctrinal exegesis that late medieval Valencian Dominican friar Saint Vincent Ferrer does on the subject of mariology. Based on the flow of the multisecular theological and literary patristic-scholastic tradition, on the strand of analogical thought and on a specular and symbolic worldview, the preacher presents in his sermons an extensive series of analogies, metaphors, allegories and biblical typologies by which he exalts the figure of the Virgin Mary, and defines its meaning as icon and universal hagiographic model of the Middle Ages. Keywords: Saint Vincent Ferrer, mariology, analogical thinking, medieval biblical exegesis

Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kati Ihnat
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Immaculate Conception ◽  
Cult Of The Virgin ◽  
The Middle Ages

This book explores a key moment in the rise of the cult of the Virgin Mary and the way the Jews became central to her story. Benedictine monks in England at the turn of the twelfth century developed many innovative ways to venerate Mary as the most powerful saintly intercessor. They sought her mercy on a weekly and daily basis with extensive liturgical practices, commemorated additional moments of her life on special feast days, and praised her above all other human beings with new doctrines that claimed her Immaculate Conception and bodily Assumption. Drawing from theological and legendary traditions dating back to early Christianity, monks revived the idea that Jews violently opposed the virgin mother of God; the goal of the monks was to contrast the veneration they thought Mary deserved with the resistance of the Jews. This book argues that the imagined antagonism of the Jews toward Mary came to serve an essential purpose in encouraging Christian devotion to her as merciful mother and heavenly Queen. Through an examination of miracles, sermons, liturgy, and theology, the book reveals how English monks helped to establish an enduring rivalry between Mary and the Jews, in consolidating her as the most popular saint of the Middle Ages and in making devotion to her a foundational marker of Christian identity.

Mary and the Middle Ages: From Diversity to Discipline

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 212-229
Author(s):  
Miri Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Devotional Poetry ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
The Middle Ages

For just over a thousand years the Virgin Mary was central to any attempt to defend or explain Christian Orthodoxy. From the formulations at Ephesos and Chalcedon Mary formed part of the understanding of a God made Flesh and of a picture of redemption which was all-embracing in its promise and tantalizing in its accessibility. This essay shows just how wide and diverse were the medieval ways of thinking about Mary and the ways of exploring the possibilities inherent in the figure of the Mother of God. In liturgy and prayer, in homilies and devotional poetry, in a vast array of material forms Mary was made familiar, above all as mother, as intercessor and companion. Unlike the sacraments, among them the all-important Eucharist, Mary was rarely a subject of discipline or of scrutiny; she entered people’s lives early and seemingly effectively. She stood, however, as a boundary-marker of Christian identity, the quintessential barrier between Christians and Others. Mary did become a subject of discipline to people in the lands of conquest and disease outside Europe.

Women and Images of Women in the Spanish Civil War

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 213-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Lannon
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
The Other ◽  
Far North ◽  
Spanish Women ◽  
The Military ◽  
Images Of Women ◽  
The Middle Ages

At the end of the Spanish Civil War in the spring of 1939, General Franco celebrated his victory by decreeing that full military honours be accorded to two statues of the Virgin Mary. The first was Our Lady of Covadonga, patron of the first great reconquest of Spain through the expulsion of Islam in the middle ages. Now, after removal by her enemies ‘the Reds’ during the Civil War, she had been restored to her northern shrine in Asturias, marking the completion of what the decree described as the second reconquest. The other statue was of Our Lady of the Kings (de los Reyes) in Seville, invoked—so the decree ran—during the battle of Lepanto against the Turks in 1571 and the battle of Bailén agaínst the French in 1808, and invoked once more in the first desperate days of the military rising in July 1936, when a victory for the ‘Red hordes’ in Seville might have changed the whole course of the war. In Covadonga and Seville, in the undefeated stronghold of the Virgin of the Pillar in Zaragoza, and across the length and breadth of the country, the Virgin Mary had saved Spain and deserved every honour and tribute. It was equally true that from far north to far south, Franco and his armies and his Nazi, Fascist, and Islamic allies had made Spain safe for the Virgin Mary. There would be no more desecrated churches, no more burned statues, no more banned processions, just as there would be no more socialists, anarchists, communists or democrats. Spain would be Catholic and authoritarian, and Spanish women could concentrate their energies on emulating Mary, and being good wives and mothers or nuns.

II.—The Catalan Mascarón and an Episode in Jacob Van Maerlant's Merlijn

PMLA ◽  
1911 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-50
Author(s):  
J. P. Wickersham Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Italian Version ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Devil ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages

A popular allegorical subject in the Middle Ages was that which represented the struggle of the good and evil powers for the possession of man's soul. Frequently the evil power is centralized in the devil or his procurator, and the contest is excited by the harrowing of Hell and the release of the damned souls by Christ. According to some of the Church Fathers, the devil had certain rights over man after the first sin, a right which was the more legitimate since it was sanctioned by God himself. The whole subject is closely connected with the dogmatic traditions of the Church concerning the redemption. In the twelfth century, Hugo of St. Victor in his commentary on the fifteenth Psalm gives an account of a dispute between Christ and Satan, in which the devil asserts his right to man as having been consigned to him after the Fall. We find this reproduced in an Italian version of the thirteenth century entitled Piato del Dio col Nemico. According to other versions, the Virgin Mary undertook the defense of man against the claims of the devil. This idea was a product of the worship of the Virgin which affected so many of the doctrines of the Church. As the protecting Mother of sinners, she was the natural adversary of the forces of evil. Mary, the Queen of Heaven, was thus contrasted with Lucifer, the independent ruler of Hell. In certain cases, the story represents a trial scene in which Christ appears as the judge, the Virgin Mary as the advocate of mankind and Mascaron, the devil's procurator, as the plaintiff. This version is found in three texts, Dutch, Latin, and Catalan, which show marked similarities.

Medieval Pilgrims and Modern Tourists

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Carole Cusack
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
New Age ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Secular World ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article examines the Marian shrines of Walsingham (England) and Meryem Ana (Turkey). Walsingham was a popular pilgrimage site until the Reformation, when Catholic sacred places were disestablished or destroyed by Protestants. Meryem Ana is linked to Walsingham, in that both shrines feature healing springs and devotion to the cult of the “Holy House” of the Virgin Mary. Walsingham is now home to multi-faith pilgrimages, New Age seekers and secular tourists. Meryem Ana is a rare Christian shrine in Islamic Turkey, where mass tourists rub shoulders with devout Christians supporting the small Greek Catholic community in residence. This article emerged from the experience of walking the Walsingham Way, a modern route based on the medieval pilgrimage in 2012, and visiting Meryem Ana in 2015 while making a different pilgrimage, that of an Australian attending the centenary of the Gallipoli landings. Both shrines are marketed through strategies of history and heritage, making visiting them more than simply tourism. Both sites offer a constructed experience that references the Middle Ages and Christianity, bringing modern tourism in an increasingly secular world into conversation with ancient and medieval pilgrimage and the religious past.

The Virgin Mary in the Hymns of the Catholic Church

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-264
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Council Of Trent ◽  
Marian Devotion ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Liturgy

This study presents images of the Virgin Mary as found in the hymns of the Catholic Church—from the patristic to the post-Vatican II period. Marian hymns flourished in the Middle Ages, but after the Council of Trent (1545–1563), the Catholic liturgy contained, with few exceptions, only the Scriptural and euchological texts in Latin. The vernacular congregational hymn contributed to the flourishing of Marian devotion apart from the official liturgy. Vatican II integrated the Virgin Mary into the ‘Mystery of Christ’ celebrated in the liturgy and presented a Scriptural and ecclesial image of Mary. Suggestions are given for Marian hymns and for their place within the liturgy.

scholarly journals Descensus ad Inferos: tres ejemplos de la literatura hispánica medieval del siglo XIII (Libro de Alexandre, General Estoria y Milagros de Nuestra Señora)

Medievalia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
Penélope Marcela Fernández Izaguirre ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Spanish Literature ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Hispanic Literature ◽  
Libro De Alexandre ◽  
Milagros De Nuestra Senora ◽  
General Estoria ◽  
The Middle Ages

The journey to the afterlife is a fundamental theme of mythological origin and present in primitive religious thought. Of course, it was in the Middle Ages when writers again addressed the topic of the descent into hell. Although the journey to the underworld was frequently presented as the pilgrimage of a hero or an individual soul, it was also possible that the gods, oblivious to the world of shadows, entered there. Following this perspective, this article will analyze the descent into hell by three female visitors depicted in 13th-century Spanish literature. Thus, in the first place, I will present examples of testimonies created prior to the consolidation of the topic of descensus ad Inferos in the Middle Ages to identify the literary traditions that influenced the reworking of the theme. In the second part, I will describe the topic in three texts of Medieval Hispanic literature, by evoking the digression on Natura in the Libro de Alexandre (cc. 2325-2437), the miracle “De cómo Teófilo fizo carta con el diablo de su ánima et después fue convertido e salvo” from the Milagros de Nuestra Señora (cc.703-866) and the passage about Juno’s fury and revenge from Part Two of the General Estoria. Finally, it will be demonstrated how the episodes describing the descent into hell by Natura, Juno and the Virgin Mary follow a similar structure. Their entrance into Hell is justified by the attributes they possess as mediators.

scholarly journals Religious and moral context of social protection of medieval space

2015 ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Snezana Bozanic ◽  
Djura Hardi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
The Other ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Last Judgment ◽  
Moral Context ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

People have preserved and respected space since ancient times. The reasons were manifold: socio- economic, legal, religious and moral. Serbian medieval rulers tended to largely provide with riches, but also to protect estates of monasteries, as evidenced by surviving charters or their parts called appeal and anathema. When resolving property disputes (including the boundaries of a certain area), in addition to the representatives of state authorities, the witnesses who took the most frightful oaths went out in the field in order to determine the accurate boundaries. In order not to disturb the economic life, throughout the Middle Ages Serbian rulers used to issue charters to people of Dubrovnik (and to the other foreign merchants) that ensured undisturbed transit across Serbian territory. Serbian medieval rulers usually invoked: God, Virgin Mary, a patron saint of a monastery, Last Judgment, the Cross, First Council of Nicaea and Judah. They inspired awe in people and contributed to the protection of the space.

scholarly journals The Taste and Perfume of the Virgin: Mary and the Nuptial Meaning of Eucharistic Sacramentality

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Noel Custodio
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Body ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Middle Ages

If we are to understand the Eucharist as the Body of Christ, it is necessary to explore how Mary’s own body participates in the Eucharistic mystery. Such a discussion was prominent during the Middle Ages, but today there is very little attention given to the relationship between Mary and the the Eucharist. This paper will explore this subject through the lens of a theology of the sacramental principle. By examining recent papal documents as well as John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, this paper will argue that Mary is the perfect fulfilment of the sacramental principle. The sacramental principle fulfilled is a principle that is nuptial, where the Eucharist expresses the wedding point between God and creation. It is Mary who unveils this mystery in her own person and body.

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