HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: The Imitation Of Christ, Cathedral Quartet, Mendicant Orders
23 Nov 2020
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Religious life reached its peak in the thirteenth century. Sermons, songs, and popular art celebrated a new emotionalism that emphasized god"s mercy; Christ was transformed from the angry judge of earlier centuries into a loving savior still very much at work in the world as evidenced by his continued reappearance in the mystical visions granted to his followers. Most originally of all, christ"s mother mary came almost to center stage in popular devotion. She had always been a prominent figure in western christian belief, until the twelfth century she had never received the attention she had long enjoyed in the. Worshipers made up for this delay by granting mary a centrality in devotional life that was extraordinary; at times she appeared almost to displace her son in people"s hearts. One hallmark of late medieval piety was its popular emphasis on imitatio christi.
