Programme and registration for the Marian Devotion in Late Medieval Society colloquium
Registration for the colloquium Marian Devotion in Late Medieval Society, organized by Rhianydd Hallas, is now closed, but you can participate via the Zoom links (please use your full name and email your consent with recording and publishing the recording of the workshop to hajic@mua.cas.cz).
Friday: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84304676511 Meeting ID: 843 0467 6511 / Passcode: 711094
Saturday: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83698342818 Meeting ID: 836 9834 2818 / Passcode: 357262
The colloquium will take place on:
October 29, 2:00-6:30 PM CE(S)T
October 30, 2:00-7:30 PM CE(S)T
(The zoom links will be sent out to registered participants a few hours ahead of time at most, because we always have last-minute registrants.)
The detailed programme is available in PDF form.
The abstracts for the individual contributions are also available in PDF.
Seventeen speakers from various disciplines and various corners of Europe (and Canada) will be presenting their work on correspondingly varied forms of Marian devotion in the late Middle Ages. Marian devotion rose to new heights during that time, with a huge number of artistic depictions created in a variety of mediums and an influx of new music and texts written in her honour. Her non-biblical activities were documented in many additional writings, such as Voragine's Golden Legend, and expounded upon by theologians and philosophers alike as well as forming a central part of late medieval literature. This informal interdisciplinary colloquium aims to bring together research on Marian devotion to widen our collective understanding of its prevalence and importance in late medieval society.
The following authors will present their work:
| Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky & Kristin Hoefener | Chant as Sermon: The office of the Presentation of Mary at the Temple and the Feast’s Promotion | |
| Stephen Huws | Medievalism: Iconography and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Stained-Glass Annunciations | |
| Eliška Poláčková | Bohemian Planctus Mariae: Feeling Like a Woman, Thinking Like a Man. Or not? | |
| Věra Soukupová | Mary fighting the devil: intercession in two medieval literary lawsuits | |
| Mariana Ramos de Lima | The Liturgical Office for the Feast of Mary's Purification in Late Medieval Braga | |
| Mihnea Mihail | Mary, Christ’s Body and the True Cross: The Virgin’s Role as Co-Redemptrix in the Case of 14th Century Wall Paintings in the Kingdom of Hungary | |
| Ann Buckley | Marian Devotion in poetry and song in medieval Ireland and Scotland – and a newly-identified musical source | |
| Jakub Pavlík | "Marian Periphery" of the Diocesan Rite of Prague | |
| Lucia Denk | Unraveling the Marian Culture of a Spanish Medieval Liturgical Manuscript | |
| Rhianydd Hallas |
The Reception of Offices for the Visitation in West Slavic Countries | |
| Matouš Jaluška | Our Lady of Words Unsaid in “Olomouc Tales” | |
| Haig Utidjian | Manifestations of Marian devotion in Armenian sacred music and theology in the late middle ages | |
| Hana Vlhová-Wörner | Ministri speciales beate virginis at St Vitus’s Cathedral in Prague: liturgy, repertory, sources | |
| Lenka Hlávková | Imperatrix virgo gloriosa from Codex Speciálník (ca 1480–1500). A revival of a forgotten Marian cantio? | |
| Sue Niebrzydowski | ‘Mary, mindfulness and the mise-en-page’: Wellbeing and the Book of Hours’ | |
| Juliette Calvarin | Respexit Humilitatem: the Madonna of Humility and the Feast of the Visitation around 1400 |
The colloquium poster is also available for distribution to colleagues who may be interested in attending the colloquium.
