UID:
edocfu_9960119801102883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 196 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
83-233-8278-6
Uniform Title:
Obraz i postać.
Content:
The image of Our Lady of Częstochowa is the most famous and the most venerated holy image in Poland. In contemporary Poland the image is a kind of a cultural icon, instantly recognizable and connected with popular symbolic and mythological meanings. Presented in this book is an analysis of beliefs, narratives (great and small stories), myths and rituals. This analysis reveals that for its devotees the image is not merely a material object and a picture - it is perceived, lived and experienced as a real person - figure of Mary - Queen and Mother.
Note:
"This book is a changed and abbreviated edition of the original Polish version: ... Obraz i postac. Znaczenia wizerunku Matki Boskiej Czestochowskiej ...".
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Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables and appendices; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I. STORIES OF ORIGIN; 1. What is acheiropoietos?; 2. The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa as acheiropoietos; 3. The oldest legends about the image and how it cameto Jasna Góra; 4. Translations of the image - variations of texts; 5. The contemporary legends of origin; 6. The great story as a contemporary etiological legend; Chapter II. THE WOUNDED IMAGE; 1. The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa as a wounded picture
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2. Changes within the oldest legends concerning the wounding of the image 3. The meanings attributed to the attack of 1430; 4. The contemporary tale of the wounding of the image; 5. The bleeding and weeping of images; 6. "The wounds are elongating"; 7. The symbolism of the wounds in the underground art of the 1980's; 8. The wounds in the transitory poetry of the 1980's; 9. "Wounded and Black"; Chapter III. QUEEN OF THE NATION; 1. The myth of the miraculous defense in European culture; 2. The miraculous defense of the Jasna Góra Monastery; 3. Contemporary memory of the defense
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4. The miraculous defense and the story of the wounding 5. The coronation of 1717 and the title of Queen; 6. The Miracle on the Vistula; 7. Miraculous defense in stories about World War II; 8. The great story as a national myth; 9. Jasna Góra - the spiritual capital of Poland; 10. Queen and Mother - a documentation of one exhibition; Chapter IV. THE IMAGE-FIGURE IN LIVED RELIGION; 1. Sensual non-differentiation; 2. "Countenance"; 3. "Mother"; 4. Mater Dolorosa; 5. Miraculous consciousness; 6. Peregrination of the image-fi gure; 7. "A Guest in the home"
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8. The figure without the image - the peregrination of an empty frame Epilogue story; APPENDIX. Chronology of the events connected with a peregrination of the copy of the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland; Selected bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 83-233-2900-1
Language:
English
