Devotion to St Anne, the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary, reached its height in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Until now, Anne's reception history and political symbolism during ...this period have been primarily discussed through the lens of art history. This is the first study to explore the music that honoured the saint and its connections to some of the most prominent court cultures of western Europe. Michael Alan Anderson examines plainchant and polyphonic music for St Anne, in sources both familiar and previously unstudied, to illuminate not only Anne's wide-ranging intercessional capabilities but also the political force of the music devoted to her. Whether viewed as a fertility aide, wise mother, or dynastic protector, she modelled a number of valuable roles that rulers reflected in the music of their devotional programmes to project their noble lineage and prestige.
Immaculate Sounds Favila, Cesar D
2023, 2023-11-26, 2023-10-20
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In Catholic doctrine, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is the belief that Mary, the mother of Christ, was exempt from original sin from the moment of her conception, and thereby a ...co-redeemer alongside her son. Praise for this complicated devotion took place in Europe throughout the medieval period and resounded in the Americas with the founding of the first convent in Mexico City under the Order of the Immaculate Conception in 1540. All other orders of nuns in New Spain branched out from this convent, spreading the Marian devotion throughout the region. In this book, author Cesar D. Favila argues that the sonification of virginity and the Virgin Mary was fundamental to the promotion of the Immaculate Conception doctrine, and that this was part of a complex network of sonified practices in the lives of New Spanish nuns. These ""immaculate sounds,"" a term Favila uses for the cloistered nuns' idealized vocalizations as well as the expression of doctrinal rhetoric through musical metaphors, echoed the highly regulated realm of the convent and played a pivotal role in mediating between the lives of New Spanish nuns and the expectation that they would save the secular world with their vocalized prayers. In addition to the sonification of discipline, Favila shows that immaculate sounds also enhanced the nuns' engagement with their religious practices and facilitated embodied and spiritual engagement with Catholic doctrines. Throughout his study, he delves into rarely studied music sources from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New Spain alongside the rulebooks, devotional literature, and nuns' biographies that regulated convent life and inspired nuns' hymns. In doing so, Favila brings together a narrative of salvation that shines a light on the musical lives of nuns and locates women's agency within a hierarchical society that silenced some women and required others to sing.
The paper offers an analysis of Quechua words and phrases used in reference to the Virgin Mary in four doctrinal works published between 1585 and 1631. The objective of the analysis is to determine ...the strategies of intercultural translation employed by the authors of the texts and to reconstruct the possible reception on the part of their intended audience. The analysis reveals that, apart from the formulae adapted from the European tradition, the authors drew the means of expression from precontact Andean religion and culture, especially from its ways of referencing religiously important female figures: the Quya and the female deities. This practice was most probably based on an assumption on the part of the authors that the connotations of Quechua words and phrases used by them corresponded to those which formed part of the established practice of Marian devotion in the Western Christendom. It enabled, however, a reading of the texts that construes a figure of Mary as analogous, perhaps even identical in some aspects, to female deities of the Andean religion.
In Introduction to Mariology , Fr. Manfred Hauke provides a
synthesis of Mariology and the biblical fundaments and development
of Marian doctrine. While it works as a comprehensive introduction
...suitable for courses on the subject, it is in reality a panoramic
view on the entire Marian doctrine, and as such will be essential
for the theological formation of seminarians, priests, theologians,
and all kinds of educated Catholics. With an unparalleled
bibliographic citation of Marian literature across a dozen
languages, it is also a perfect gateway to further research on the
subject. It begins with Biblical doctrine, which is important
especially for the dialogue with Protestant denominations: Catholic
Mariology can be traced in its "embryonic" state already in Holy
Scripture. From there Hauke presents a historical overview of the
whole development of Marian doctrine, before developing further
historical details in the subsequent chapters dedicated to
systematic issues. The first systematic step approaches the figure
of Mary through her role in the mystery of the Covenant between God
and redeemed humanity; her being "Mother of God" and companion of
the Redeemer is the "fundamental principle." Then the four
established Marian dogmas are presented: divine maternity,
virginity, Immaculate Conception (in a chapter on Mary's holiness
more broadly), and bodily Assumption. A close look is given to
maternal mediation which includes a part dedicated to the "Mater
Unitatis". A stand alone chapter is dedicated to Marian
apparitions; authentic apparitions are presented as a part of
prophetic charisma. The last chapter presents the basics on Marian
devotion which culminates in the consecration to Mary (as a
response to her maternal mediation). Already available in Spanish,
Italian, Portugese, and Korean, this landmark work is published
here for the first time in English.
En este artículo nos proponemos destacar la originalidad de las inscripciones árabes que adornan el arco de la llamada Casa del Conde de Toledo, fechadas en el siglo XV. La principal inscripción del ...arco es una oración a Santa María escrita en aljamiado, lengua romance con grafía árabe muy elaborada, y las secundarias, más legibles, repiten ora en aljamiado, ora en árabe los nombres de Jesús y de Santa María. Además, en el segmento en árabe, Jesús está nombrado en su versión musulmana, ʿĪsā, y se insiste en su filiación con María como una reminiscencia de uno de los principales desacuerdos entre islam y cristianismo en torno a la figura de Jesús. A partir de una lectura paralela a la de Rodrigo Amador de los Ríos, proponemos un análisis epigráfico y lingüístico, antes de estudiar el contenido y el sentido de los textos. Analizando el contexto, la relación entre artesano y comitente, y comparando con otras inscripciones mudéjares que plantean problemáticas similares, acabamos por considerar estas inscripciones como un reflejo de la voluntad por parte de los comitentes cristianos de sintetizar varias tradiciones religiosas y culturales. No pensamos sin embargo que haya que entender esta conciliación entre islam y cristianismo como la expresión de una apertura hacia creencias ajenas sino más bien como un intento hegemónico de abarcar a todos debajo del poder cristiano.
La superación del excesivo reduccionismo dogmático y el rescate de María de Nazaret como sujeto ineludible en la construcción de la historia de la salvación es la premisa que guía el ejercicio de ...escritura que se devela en este texto, proponiendo miradas que se distancian de los criterios de racionalidad teológica que han predominado en el análisis de su papel como figura esencial, en torno de la cual se estructuran narrativas fundamentales para entender la participación activa de las mujeres en el contexto de las sagradas Escrituras.Frente a ello se recurrió a una propuesta de análisis polifónico que considera las complejas y dinámicas dimensiones de María como mujer, madre y paradigma de vida. Para tratar de solventar estos vacíos, se consideraron los aportes de la teología feminista, que permitieron descentrarse de los discursos que solo la ven como madre y sujeto silencioso que se difumina en la opacidad producto de los análisis hegemónicos. De este modo, se posicionó a María como mujer histórica en la que confluyen los referentes de representación de su papel como lideresa que forjó un ethos familiar y la figura de Jesús, con una experiencia de Dios afincada en el sentido a la vida; que invita a trascender el paradigma de madre desde la función biológica y ampliar así la perspectiva hacia lo que da sentido a la misma después de la concepción.Para tal fin, se plantea un marco de ética de la igualdad que asume la idea de equilibrio de poder e igualdad recíproca. Esto constituye un valor que apela al reconocimiento del otro en su poder, es decir, igualdad de poder como equipotencia, para cuya explicación se requiere entender que los sujetos y ciudadanos son iguales y comparten cada uno su rol como actores que ayudan a configurar sociedades y colectividades.
The current article addresses the topic of the symbolic identification of the Virgin Mary as a door according to a double possibility, namely, as an open door and as a shut door. This implies ...designating Mary simultaneously as ianua coeli and as porta clausa. These two possibilities suggest very different, though complementary, doctrinal meanings. Through the textual analysis of various quotes from the Church Fathers and theologians and medieval liturgical hymns referring to one or other of these two metaphorical expressions, the Author will determine the doctrinal meanings inherent in each one.
In the second instance, the iconographic analysis of seven images of the Annunciation from the 14th and 15th centuries that include some door in special conditions will allow us to validate the hypothesis that the intellectual authors of these seven paintings introduced that door into them as a visual metaphor capable of illustrating both textual metaphors of porta clausa and ianua coeli.
The paper concerns the representation of the Virgin Mary in the Ukrainian homily on the Annunciation preserved in the collection of Baroque manuscript sermons. Combination of culture-historical ...approach with descriptive, comparative and hermeneutic methods as well as "close reading" strategy are applied. Results of the study. Following the evangelical text, the anonymous preacher imitates the dialogue between Saint Mary and the angel Gabriel. In the laudation of the Blessed Virgin that the author puts into the angel’s mouth, Mary is depicted as a protector and helper of all Christians being fulfilled with the divine mercy. Using some quotations and paraphrases from the Old Testament, in particular from the Song of Songs, the author creates the system of images prefiguring the Mother of God. For example, to describe her majesty and power the author elaborates metaphors of Mary as David’s tower with shields alluding to Cant. 4:4 and Mary as king’s carriage escorted by mighty warriors alluding to Cant. 3:7. Shields and other weapon stand for the virtues of the Blessed Virgin, whereas soldiers prefigure the heavenly host. Comparison of Mary with the tower of David is a common topos in the Ukrainian Baroque literature where the Mother of God is represented as a voivode defending and supporting in battles. In the anonymous sermon, Mary is also compared to such female Bible characters as Eve, Rebecca, Esther, and Judith. The last two women are famous for their struggle against the enemies of the people of Israel so that their function in the sermon is to underline Mary’s role as a defender of Christians, which is repeatedly postulated by the author. Some other examples of imagery concerning the Blessed Virgin are not borrowed directly from the Bible but originate from the rich Christian culture (Mary as Star of the Sea) or the Classical mythology (Mary as an Amazon). Scientific novelty. Based on unpublished source material, the research demonstrates polygenetic nature of Marian symbols used by the unknown Ukrainian author of the Baroque period.
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