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Volume 25, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1378-2274
  • E-ISSN: 2031-0064

Abstract

Abstract

The paper presents several items from the Bohemian corpus of Marian laments from the fourteenth century that has not been yet introduced to international scholarly debate concerning the genre. The Latin in the , Old Czech in the , and two shorter Old Czech verse laments, and , are discussed in the context of medieval affective piety and with regard to their performative aspects, i.e. various forms of their presentation and reception (singing, declamation, theatrical[ized] performance) and the physical handling of the manuscripts they were originally part of, such as touching or kissing the texts and pictures that accompanied them on the foils.

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