‎Pietro Delcorno, Holly Johnson (eds)‎
‎Communicating the Passion. The Socio-Religious Function of an Emotional Narrative (1250-1530)‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, 400 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:7 b/w, 24 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503610627.‎

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‎Summary This volume investigates the vivid and emotionally intense commemoration of the Passion of Christ as a key element in late medieval religious culture. Its goal is to shed light on how the Passion was communicated and on its socio-religious function in late medieval Europe. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the volume analyses the different media involved in this cultural process (sermons, devotional texts, lively performances, statues, images), the multiple forms and languages in which the Passion was presented to the faithful, and how they were expected to respond to it. Key questions concern the strategies used to present the Passion; the interaction between texts, images, and sounds in different media; the dissemination of theological ideas in the public space; the fashioning of an affective response in the audience; and the presence or absence of anti-Jewish commonplaces. By exploring the interplay among a wide range of sources, this volume highlights the pervasive role of the Passion in late medieval society and in the life of the people of the time. TABLE OF CONTENTS Communicating the Passion of Christ: An Introduction PIETRO DELCORNO Negotiating Gender Roles in Fourteen-Century Bohemian Literature and Performance: Marian and Magdalenian Laments ELI?KA KUBARTOVÁ Picturing the Passion: Devotional Strategies in the Passional of Abbess Kunigunde KATRIN JANZ-WENIG AND LENKA PANU?KOVÁ The Passion Narrative in the Meditationes Vitae Christi: Texts and Images DÁVID FALVAY Meditational and Narrative Techniques in a Passion Text of a Hungarian-Language Dominican Manuscript ÁGNES KORONDI Hearing the Passion: Soundscapes of Richard Rolle's Vernacular Passion Meditations TAMÁS KARÁTH The Art of Seeing: Passion Imagescapes in the Sermons of Robert Rypon HOLLY JOHNSON Preaching the Passion in Fourteenth-Century Bohemia: Milí? of Krom??í?'s Good Friday Sermons OLGA KALASHNIKOVA Communicating the Passion and Sainthood: Patterns in Preaching on Saint Stanislaus of Krakow STANISLAVA KUZMOVÁ Emotions, Theology, and Society in a Blockbuster: The Good Friday Sermon by Gritsch/Grütsch PIETRO DELCORNO Roberto Caracciolo's Good Friday Preaching: Performance, Religious Drama, and Poetry GIACOMO MARIANI Words from the Cross: The Speaking Crucifixes and the Passion of the Franciscan Friars CARLA BINO Examining Finnish Anti-Judaic Imagery through Sermons: The Passion Iconography of the Holy Cross Church of Hattula JUSSI HANSKA Index‎