{"title":"Das Tuch der Veronika im \"Frankfurter und Alsfelder Passionsspiel\". Heilsinszenierung und -autorität im Licht eines ikonischen Gegenstands","authors":"Angelika Kemper","doi":"10.1484/j.emd.5.119435","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The contribution explores an iconic object used in German Passion plays related to the Passion of Christ: the sudarium. Veronica emerged as a very popular saint in the later Middle Ages. Her shroud showing Christ’s face was similarly popular. Its theatrical visualization is related to a practice of piety that prefers a visual approach to holy things. The figure and the artefact gain importance in late medieval plays, where Veronica appears as a preaching figure, providing access to God by her shroud. The paper focusses on the Frankfurt Passion Play and the Alsfeld Passion Play, which reveal different ways of framing the presence of Christ by verbal commentary and underlining the pictorial mode of the sudarium.","PeriodicalId":39581,"journal":{"name":"European Medieval Drama","volume":"22 1","pages":"37-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Medieval Drama","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.emd.5.119435","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The contribution explores an iconic object used in German Passion plays related to the Passion of Christ: the sudarium. Veronica emerged as a very popular saint in the later Middle Ages. Her shroud showing Christ’s face was similarly popular. Its theatrical visualization is related to a practice of piety that prefers a visual approach to holy things. The figure and the artefact gain importance in late medieval plays, where Veronica appears as a preaching figure, providing access to God by her shroud. The paper focusses on the Frankfurt Passion Play and the Alsfeld Passion Play, which reveal different ways of framing the presence of Christ by verbal commentary and underlining the pictorial mode of the sudarium.
期刊介绍:
European Medieval Drama (EMD) is an annual journal published by Brepols. It was launched in 1997 in association with the International Conferences on Medieval European Drama organised at the University of Camerino, Italy, by Sydney Higgins between 1996 and 1999. The first four volumes of European Medieval Drama (1997-2000) published the Acts of these conferences. This series of conferences was suspended for the foreseeable future in 1999. At the Tenth Triennial Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l"étude du Théâtre Médiéval (SITM), held in Groningen, the Netherlands, in August 2001, it was proposed that EMD should be published in association with SITM. This proposal has now been approved by all interested parties, and comes into effect as of spring 2002.