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By Margot E. Fassler
Medieval Christians knew the earlier essentially via what they observed and heard. heritage was once reenacted each year in ritual observances specific to every position and area and rooted within the legends of neighborhood saints.This richly illustrated ebook explores the layers of background present in the cult of the Virgin of Chartres because it constructed within the 11th and 12th centuries. targeting the key relic of Chartres Cathedral, the Virgin’s costume, and the banquet of Mary's Nativity, Margot Fassler employs quite a lot of historic facts together with neighborhood histories, letters, obituaries, chants, liturgical resources, and reviews of miracles, resulting in a close interpreting of the cathedral's west façade. This interdisciplinary quantity will end up worthy to historians who paintings in faith, politics, song, and paintings yet also will function a guidebook for all attracted to the heritage of Chartres Cathedral.
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In this description, Mary’s relic is the “interior tunic,” of an adult woman, a description which puts the garment directly on her flesh and makes it witness to the most important events of incarnation and birth: Then next, having left their boats behind, with running swiftness, [the Normans] come to the city [of Chartres], and fortify it all around with a blockade. But yet then, the fore-mentioned bishop, having known of the coming siege by divine revelation, commissions the Count of Poitiers, and the Duke of Burgundy, the two most powerful counts in France, to come to his aid; and they, on the day established by the bishop, come to bear help to the Christian people, prepared by common vow with a great army.
Modern scholars naturally gravitate toward study of places that had early history writers, but what about those that did not—in the central Middle Ages the vast majority of places? How did understandings of the past evolve where there were no records and no local written histories? Taking Chartres as an example, only stray references are found in early historical writings and next to nothing about what had become by the late tenth century the major cult of the region, that of the Virgin Mary. The liturgy was the only sure way of getting historical material embedded within communal memory.
This history added strength to the idea that “counts” of Chartres/Blois existed long before figures who held this title actually existed, and that they were men of the sword as well as of the cloth. In the course of the central Middle Ages, new chants were steadily added to the liturgical materials inherited from the Carolingians. Among the most important of these additions were sequences, long chants sung before the Gospel of Mass. Throughout this study, the nature of sequences composed for the Virgin’s cult will be referenced, offering an understanding of how her character developed within the liturgy itself.