Transcript Material Virgin Mary – Liturgy and Devotion

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)
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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 Birgitta
St Katarina of
Vadstena
The Madonna
INTERTEXT (discourse conventions)
• Mother of Christ, incarnation, eucharisty
• Virgin Mother (hair), annunciation, visitation, nativity
• Queen of heaven (crowned, clothes), obedience,
assumption
• Maria ecclesia (gothic church)
• Woman from the Apocalypse (dressed in sun, twelve
stars, stands on the moon) humility (defeats evil)
A shrine?
Hinges?
Liturgical use?
Narrative art, Symbolic art
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