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From Judgment to Passion - Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200 (Paperback)
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From Judgment to Passion - Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200 (Paperback)
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Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet
most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How
and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother
achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious
creativity as well such imitative extremes as celibacy and
self-flagellation? To answer this question, Rachel Fulton ranges
over developments in liturgical performance, private prayer,
doctrine, and art. She considers the fear occasioned by the
disappointed hopes of medieval Christians convinced that the
apocalypse would come soon, the revulsion of medieval Jews at being
baptized in the name of God born from a woman, the reform of the
Church in light of a new European money economy, the eroticism of
the Marian exegesis of the Song of Songs, and much more. Devotion
to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar yet
disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and
why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother
achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious
creativity and emotional artistry even as they fostered such
imitative extremes as celibacy, crusade, and self-flagellation?
Magisterial in style and comprehensive in scope, From Judgment to
Passion is the first systematic attempt to explain the origins and
initial development of European devotion to Christ in his suffering
humanity and Mary in her compassionate grief. Rachel Fulton
examines liturgical performance, doctrine, private prayer,
scriptural exegesis, and art in order to illuminate and explain the
powerful desire shared by medieval women and men to identify with
the crucified Christ and his mother. The book begins with the
Carolingian campaign to convert the newly conquered pagan Saxons,
in particular with the effort to explain for these new converts the
mystery of the Eucharist, the miraculous presence of Christ's body
at the Mass. Moving on to the early eleventh century, when Christ's
failure to return on the millennium of his Passion (A.D. 1033)
necessitated for believers a radical revision of Christian history,
Fulton examines the novel liturgies and devotions that arose amid
this apocalyptic disappointment. The book turns finally to the
twelfth century when, in the wake of the capture of Jerusalem in
the First Crusade, there occurred the full flowering of a new, more
emotional sensibility of faith, epitomized by the eroticism of the
Marian exegesis of the Song of Songs and by the artistic and
architectural innovations we have come to think of as
quintessentially high medieval. In addition to its concern with
explaining devotional change, From Judgment to Passion presses a
second, crucial question: How is it possible for modern historians
to understand not only the social and cultural functions but also
the experience of faith-the impulsive engagement with the emotions,
sometimes ineffable, of prayer and devotion? The answer,
magnificently exemplified throughout this book's narrative, lies in
imaginative empathy, the same incorporation of self into story that
lay at the heart of the medieval effort to identify with Christ and
Mary in their love and pain.
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