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From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200
Rachel Fulton Brown
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Paperback. How and why did the images of the crucified Christ and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes as celibacy and self-flagellation? To answer this question, Fulton ranges over developments in liturgical performance, private prayer, doctrine, and art. Num Pages: 752 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 982.
Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes as celibacy and self-flagellation? To answer this question, Rachel Fulton ranges over developments in liturgical performance, private prayer, doctrine, and art. She considers the fear occasioned by the disappointed hopes of medieval Christians convinced that the apocalypse would come soon, the revulsion of medieval Jews at being baptized in the name of God born from ... Read more
Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes as celibacy and self-flagellation? To answer this question, Rachel Fulton ranges over developments in liturgical performance, private prayer, doctrine, and art. She considers the fear occasioned by the disappointed hopes of medieval Christians convinced that the apocalypse would come soon, the revulsion of medieval Jews at being baptized in the name of God born from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231125512
SKU
V9780231125512
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About Rachel Fulton Brown
Rachel Fulton is asssociate professor of history at the University of Chicago. She has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Lilly Endowment, and she has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, where she began work on this book. Her current project is a study of the cognitive and ritual making of prayer in ... Read more
Reviews for From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200
Fulton's sophisticated analysis of medieval prayer and liturgy reexamines the medieval conceptions of judgement, passion and salvation, and presents valuable new insights into the developements of the cult of the suffering Jesus and the compassionate Virgin Mary. This is truly an important book. Choice This intellectual tour de force... paints in breathtaking strokes a gorgeous tapestry of the loyal devotion ... Read more