CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Korondi, Agnes |
|---|---|
| Title | Prayers on the Passion in Late Medieval Hungarian-Language Codices: Functions and Context |
| Summary | In the last decades of the fifteenth and the first four decades of the sixteenth century a number of prayer collections were copied in the vernacular in Hungarian monasteries for the use of nuns or aristocratic patrons. Many of the prayers are centered on the passion of Christ. Previous scholarship has discussed these texts mainly from a positivistic perspective, investigating their sources. This paper outlines the spiritual and cultural context of the Hungarian passion prayers comparing their narrative strategies and devotional function to the rhetoric devices of longer narratives about the suffering of Christ and visual representations of the passion. By analyzing the introductory rubrics as well as the different requests formulated in the prayers, I point out various uses such texts could have served, ranging from short liturgical pieces said before or after communion, longer meditation-like oratios serving as a stage in one’s mystical road towards Christ, to protective formulas meant to ensure a good death and eternal bliss in the otherworld. |
| Supervisor | Szonyi, Gyorgy Endre |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/korondi_agnes.pdf |
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