Emotion and Devotion: The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures

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Monday, 30 November, 5:30pm
CEU, Budapest, V., Nador 9, Auditorium
Keynote Speech: Dunja Mijatovic (OSCE Representative for Freedom of Media)
Panelists:
Miklós Haraszti (CEU): Revisiting the Three Europes: Diverging Landscapes of Media Freedom of Expression
Andrei Richter (Special Advisor to the OSCE RFOM): Russia`s Supreme Court as Media Freedom Protector
Juan Barata (Principal Advisor to the OSCE RFOM and Research): The Role of the Mass Media in the Spanish Transition to Democracy and Its Subsequent Consolidation
Bernard Rorke (ERRC): Free to Hate? Anti-Gypsyism in 21st-Century Europe
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Peter Molnar (ed.)
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Katalin Székely, independent art historian and curator, PhD fellow at ELTE Budapest

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The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series, vol. 2.

Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London

In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, altarpieces and sermons – a wide range of sources from many European regions – are made to reveal the creativity and richness which they elicited in medieval people, women and men, clergy and laity, people of status and riches as well as those of modest means.

The first chapter, "The Global 'Middle Ages'," considers the current historiographical frame for the study of religious cultures and suggests ways in which the Middle Ages can be made more global. Next, "Mary, and Others" examines the polemical situations around Mary, and the location of Muslims and Jews within them. The third chapter, "Emotions and Selves," tracks the sentimental education experienced by Europeans in the late Middle Ages through devotional encounters with the figure of the Virgin Mary in word, image and sound.

Each year one scholar of world fame is invited to present lectures in the framework of the Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at the Central European University, Budapest. This is the second volume in the series of published lectures.

Contents

Preface; Chapter 1. The Global “Middle Ages”; Chapter 2. Mary, and Others; Chapter 3. Emotions and Selves; Index

"Can anything new be said about the Virgin Mary? Precisely because she is so ubiquitous, Mary must be rediscovered by each generation.

Intended for a wide audience, Rubin's lectures are eminently readable... this is a book that could be fruitfully assigned to show undergraduates how the world's most famous Jewish mother fits into the broad sweep of medieval and Christian culture and the tragic sweep of her people's history". - The Journal of Speculum

2009
122 pages + 8 with color photos
130x200 mm (5.1" x 7.9")
ISSN 1996-1197 The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series Vol.2
ISBN 978-963-9776-36-4 paperback $16.95 / €12.95 / £11.99

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