The Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Devotion and Iconography

• Other Authors: Salvador-González, José María (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Mariology; Marian iconography; Mary's divine motherhood; Annunciation; theological sources; doctrinal symbol; John Duns Scotus; medieval theology; God's eternal plan; the dogma of the Immaculate Conception; Virgin Mary; free will; Thomism; Camino de Santiago; medieval pilgrimage; cult of saints; Mozarabic rite; chant; responsory; sequence; Sainte-Foy at Conques; relief sculpture; divine motherhood; perpetual virginity; liturgical hymns; Renaissance art; virtues; virginity; medieval women; liturgy; medieval music; medieval art; Hildegard of Bingen; Scivias; Christianity; Christology; Martin Luther; justification; theology of the Cross; suffering; iconography; Lucas Cranach the Elder; St. Bernard of Clairvaux; mariology; beauty; medieval aesthetics; medieval philosophy; Dormition of the Theotokos; Dormition iconography; mandorla; Glory of God; Byzantine art; post-Byzantine art; the Virgin of the Girdle; troper-proser; liturgical song; medieval devotion; miracles; Tortosa; annunciation; erotic symbolism; mystical wedding; political theology; sacred play; Nursing Madonna; Madonna of Humility; Eve; Mary; breastfeeding; redemption; Marian miracles; Gautier de Coinci; Illuminated Manuscripts; miraculous images; medieval visual culture
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This reprint aims to investigate some of the numerous ways in which Christianity venerated and represented the Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Fifteen researchers in various areas of the Arts and Humanities have brought together here their efforts to address in part this inexhaus...