Marian devotion in Aveiro: words, music and images (15th-16th c.)
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This article discusses one particular chant, Salve regina, and studies its evolution within the Dominican liturgy, concentrating on the context of the female branch of the order in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Salve regina can be called votive, devotional or commemorative and forms an intriguing subject for the study of the question of ...
This article explores the ways in which the newly founded and highly contested Christian confession of the Greek Catholics or Uniates employed strategies of mass mobilization to establish and maintain their position within a contested confessional terrain. The Greek Catholic clerics, above all monks of the Basilian order fostered an active policy o...
Based on two field studies on the micro level of items which place-makers and merchants display at holy sites, an argument about the supply side of the political economy of pilgrimage is proposed. Place-makers and merchants rely on the established pilgrims’ traditions but differ concerning innovations. Place-makers are the principals of the sites a...
The Virgin of Copacabana is the main title of Mary in Bolivia. Its history was fixed for the first time in the Historia del Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Copacabana (1621) by the Augustinian friar Alonso Ramos Gavilán. In 2012, the Peruvian director Leónidas Zegarra premiered Virgen de Copacabana: su historia y milagros. After examining Zegarra’s ...
The pages of this article are intended to bring the reader closer to the histor- ical and religious figure of Manuel Costa de los Ríos, popularly known as Negro Manuel, the faithful slave of Our Lady of Luján, by analyzing the act of sale in behalf of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Luján, in December 1674, with the purpose, according to the express...
The thirteenth-century prior and poet-musician Gautier de Coinci is known for his extravagant wordplay, which relies on the recursive patterning of verbal sound. This article considers Gautier’s penchant for sonic repetition in the light of the music that frames his book of miracles, focusing on the song Por mon chief reconforter, a chanson-à-refra...
Kako u mariologiji dolaze do izražaja mnoge teološke discipline, tako je ona i jedno od najkontroverznijih ekumenskih područja. Rad se stoga referira na II. Vatikanski koncil koji upravo u mariologiji pokazuje naglašen ekumenski interes. Nakon što su najprije istaknute temeljne ekumenske odrednice koncilske mariologije, rad se usredotočuje na smjer...
The article analyses how – on conjuncture of approaching of an epidemic, between 1855 and 1862 – the region of Cariri, inside Ceará, turned to Virgin Mary as a mean of defense before the Cholera. Starting from priests’ letters and prayers published in the newspaper “O Araripe”, we establish how the disease was represented from a penitential view, b...