On the Dissemination of Quem quaeritis and the Visitatio sepulchri and the Chronology of Their Early Sources

Bjork, David A.

doi:10.1353/cdr.1980.0004

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“…The texts focus on the three Marys visiting the tomb, where they find an angel who sings to them 'quem quaeritis', 'for whom are you looking'? (Bjork 1980; for controversial views, see pp. 47-48).…”

Section: Winchestermentioning

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Medieval Holy Sepulchre Chapels: Experience and Memory of Jerusalem

Hennessy

2024

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This paper explores the rituals enacted in or connected with two medieval churches, one walrus ivory cross and a central topic of medieval devotion, Christ’s passion. During Easter Week these memorialised the site in Jerusalem dedicated to the burial of Christ, the holiest place in Christendom. It focuses on the physical elements, the spaces, the paintings and sculpture, the ceremonial objects and relics and the performative nature of rituals associated with them. The Regularis Concordia, composed in Winchester at the end of the 10th century for the use of Benedictine monasteries included sung liturgical enactments based on the gospel accounts of Christ’s burial and resurrection. At the same time, in Saxony, the Abbey at Gernrode was founded for the use of women, secular canonesses, with a space in the south aisle that seems to have represented Christ’s place of burial and was later incorporated into two chambers evoking the Holy Sepulchre Chapel in Jerusalem. In the 12th century in Winchester Cathedral, a Holy Sepulchre Chapel was decorated with wall paintings depicting Christ’s death and resurrection. Around this time, the walrus ivory cross known as the Cloisters Cross was created and appears to have been designed for use in the increasingly elaborate liturgical enactments. The paintings at Winchester Cathedral, the sculpture at Gernrode and the Cloisters Cross each evidence the significance of evoking Christ’s passion and how liturgical space and objects served to bring it to life.

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Section: Winchestermentioning

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Medieval Holy Sepulchre Chapels: Experience and Memory of Jerusalem

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2024

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“…More important than the issue of antiquity, however, is that the use of the Quem quaeritis tropes, as Bjork points out, wherever they originated, became quickly and widely distributed throughout Flanders and the Rhineland by the end of the tenth century, areas, in other words, in which the reformers dominated the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and areas in which it seemed common policy to shape liturgical practices to conform to the so-called 'Romano-Germanic Pontifical'. 26 The most elaborate tenth-century version of the Quem quaeritis appears in the English Regularis Concordia, drawn up sometime between 950 to 975 by St Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester. 27 We…”

Section: Gregory Of Einsiedelnmentioning

confidence: 99%