| Paper 124-b | 'Climates' of Thought and Feeling in Medieval Representations of Jesus's Passion
(Language: English)
Irena Avsenik Nabergoj, SRC, Slovenian Academy of Sciences & Arts / Institute for the Bible, Judaism & Early Christianity, University of Ljubljana / Faculty of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
While 13th-century Parisian organum was improvised around chant, it remains unclear how the nature of the relationship between plainchant and polyphony was viewed - as genus and species, respectively, or as separate, sister genera. Earlier studies relied on too few sources for their arguments, which yielded misleading results. By surveying the principal Notre Dame Polyphony treatises, this paper firstly demonstrates that there was no 13th-century consensus, and secondly argues that, when considered within the chronology of Notre Dame Polyphony, the numerous positions across treatises reflect a conceptual transition in which plainchant and polyphony's relationship shifted from being perceived vertically to being perceived horizontally.
Paper -b:
The article examines selected texts from the medieval tradition of vita Christi, which emphasizes the role of Mary weeping and sympathizing with Jesus in his suffering. It illuminates the power of emotions, which in the West only in the Middle Ages surpassed the doctrinal relationship and established itself in folk piety, art, music, passion plays, and monastic life. The aim of the article is to explore the reasons for the strong sympathy with the figure of the suffering Jesus and his mother and the hostile attitude towards the Jews as tormentors of Jesus in sermons, meditations, ascetic writings, and prayers.
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