The city of Santa Maria, RS state, is well-known as a religious center of Marian devotion and is an attraction for pilgrims and visitors, mainly because of the annual pilgrimage of Our Lady Medianeira . Silveira Martins, also in the central region of RS state, emerged linked to Santa Maria as host city of the fourth region of the Italian immigration in 1877. This town maintains a strong devotion for Mother Mary once this image was brought from Italian immigrants. This relation and the characteristics of the popular devotion is what motivated this paper. Its main purpose is to collect data which will allow us to build a religious and cultural itinerary, involving pilgrimage places and devotion to Mother Mary in the central region of RS state, Brazil. As a geographical cut, it was established that the region between Santa Maria and Silveira Martins would be the principal focus of this paper because of all the reasons mentioned above and because of the places selected, as the Sanctuaries and festivities that compose this itinerary, which follows: Diocesan Cathedral, Basilica of Our Lady Medianeira , Sanctuary of Schoenstatt, Church of Our Lady Dores , in Santa Maria; Sanctuary of Our lady of Health and Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pompeii, in Silveira Martins. Methodologically, an exploratory research was used, employing a historical method of procedure, from the technique of bibliographical investigation, of observation and of the qualitative appreciation of the collected information. The conceptual categories discussed told about Cultural Estate, Tourism, and the Catholic Identity of Rio Grande do Sul state, pilgrimage. The main findings are about the characterization of the religious identity of this region as a result of the propagation of the popular Catholicism, characterized by a devotional dimension mainly directed to the Marian cult, expressed currently in popular religious parties like pilgrimages, corteges and promises considered as inheritance of the Portuguese settlers, Indians missionaries, black people, people from Açores and Italian immigrants. / A cidade de Santa Maria/RS destaca-se como centro religioso de devoção mariana, foco de atração de peregrinos e visitantes, principalmente por ocasião da romaria anual de Nossa Senhora Medianeira. Silveira Martins, também na região central do Estado, surgiu ligada a Santa Maria, como sede da Quarta Colônia de Imigração Italiana, em 1877. Esta cidade, hoje, conserva forte devoção a Maria, trazida pelos imigrantes da Itália. Tal relação e as características da devoção popular nelas guardada é que moveu este trabalho. O objetivo principal consistiu em reunir subsídios que permitam construir um guia turístico cultural-religioso, envolvendo locais de peregrinação e devoção à Virgem Maria na região central do Rio Grande do Sul/BR. Como recorte geográfico, estabeleceu-se como foco de estudo a região compreendida no espaço geográfico e culturalmente delimitado pelos municípios de Santa Maria e Silveira Martins, pelos motivos já apresentados e porque neles foram selecionados os Santuários e festas que compõem o guia turístico proposto: Catedral Diocesana, Basílica de Nossa Senhora Medianeira, Santuário de Schoenstatt, Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Dores, em Santa Maria; Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Saúde e Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Pompéia, em Silveira Martins. Metodologicamente, usou-se a pesquisa de caráter exploratório, a partir da técnica de investigação bibliográfica, da observação e apreciação qualitativa das informações coletadas. As categorias conceituais discutidas versaram sobre Patrimônio Cultural, Turismo e Identidade Religiosa Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Peregrinação e Romarias. As constatações principais dizem respeito à caracterização da identidade religiosa da região como resultado da propagação do catolicismo popular, caracterizado por uma dimensão devocional, principalmente, e voltado para o culto mariano, expresso atualmente em festas religiosas populares com procissões, romarias, promessas e ex-votos, expressões estas consideradas aqui como herança dos povoadores portugueses, indígenas missioneiros, negros, açorianos e imigrantes italianos.

The profile the individual creates on social media can be likened to a digital panopticon. How this profilicity has developed is examined by reviewing seven texts concerning the creation of identity. After this, five paradigms emerge that map how profilicity has developed through history and how the profile has become a digital panopticon in a post-political society. The profile thus becomes a tool for strengthening the hegemony that prevails in society. / Profilen individen skapat på sociala medier kan liknas vid ett digitalt panoptikon. Hur denna profilicitet växt fram undersöks genom att sju källor rörande identitetens skapande gås igenom. Efter detta träder fem paradigm fram som kartlägger hur profiliciteten växt fram genom historien och hur profilen kommit att bli ett digitalt panoptikon i det postpolitiska samhället. Profilen blir således ett verktyg för att förstärka den hegemoni som råder i samhället.

Images of the Mater dolorosa, the weeping Mother of God mourning over her dead son, are plentiful art of Northern Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and often foreground the shedding of effluvia—blood, sweat, and tears—in their depictions of the holy pair. This paper explores the visual themes of tears, blood, eyes, and wounds as vital actors in images that require close, meditative, and affective looking and engagement. Such image formats include small-scale pairings of the Man of Sorrows and Mater dolorosa as well as books of hours. In these contexts, the holy fluids and their bodily sources expand the images' narratives and allow for greater exegesis of their devotional prompts. This phenomenon of expansion via effluvia occurs throughout Flemish devotional culture of this period; this paper uses Albrecht Bouts's diptych panels of the Mater dolorosa and Man of Sorrows, produced between 1490 and 1525, as the chief case study to encapsulate and ground those ideas while still acknowledging that they also apply beyond this image. Considering the widespread commonalities between blood and tears in visual and textual representations of the early modern Flemish devotional culture and the visual similarities between weeping eyes and bleeding wounds, this paper argues that Mary's eyes act as the external manifestations of her internal wounds and become locus of her Compassion for Christ. Furthermore, pictorial blood and tears function as metonymic devices that, like the Man of Sorrows type, invoke the entirety of the Passion and Compassion. The multivalent functions of the blood and tears in Bouts's diptych expand it beyond just a representation of Mary and her son and allow it to become a window and mirror into which viewers could look to engage in penance and communion with Mary and Christ.

À l’aube de la Contre-Réforme, on exigea des prélats de vivre plus sobrement et de tempérer leur passion pour l’art et l’architecture. Malgré cela, de nombreux palais furent construits, rénovés et décorés avec faste. Le rôle des palais et de leurs décors dans la mise en scène du pouvoir a été bien démontré, mais peu d’attention a été portée à la fonction dévotionnelle de ces demeures, pourtant destinées aux plus hauts membres du clergé. Cette thèse de doctorat propose la première synthèse des pratiques de dévotion privée des cardinaux à Rome entre 1550 et 1610 à partir de l’étude du mécénat de leurs palais. L’analyse des chapelles domestiques et des studioli des palais Salviati alla Lungara, Altemps, Farnese à Caprarola, del Drago à Bolsena et de la villa d’Este à Tivoli montre l’importante préoccupation des cardinaux pour leur Salut et le rôle de l’art pour susciter, au sein de la demeure, une méditation sotériologique. Ces observations permettent de suggérer que ces exercices se déroulaient non seulement dans les chapelles, mais aussi dans des pièces traditionnellement identifiées comme des studioli. Nous proposons plutôt de les désigner comme des ermitages ou romitori et de les considérer comme des lieux tout aussi importants que les chapelles dans l’élaboration de la piété domestique des cardinaux post-tridentins. À travers les thèmes de la Passion du Christ, de la vie de la Vierge ou des vertus cardinales et théologales, les fresques qui ornent ces espaces furent utilisées comme des outils de contemplation spirituelle du mystère de la Rédemption. L’inclusion de copies d’images miraculeuses ou d’« objets de substitution », au sens qu’ont donné à cette expression Alexander Nagel et Christopher Wood (2010), garantissait en outre aux cardinaux la vie éternelle en échange des prières effectuées dans les pièces où les icônes étaient exposées. Cette admission au paradis était également mise en scène par le déplacement physique ou métaphorique du cardinal dans les logge peintes de verdure ou les jardins des palais. Plus qu’une simple analyse des œuvres et des pièces singulières, cette thèse établit des relations entre les différents espaces des palais, de manière à montrer que le comportement dévotionnel privé des cardinaux dans la Rome de la Contre-Réforme était envisagé comme un parcours spirituel, dans lequel l’art occupait un rôle fondamental. / At the dawn of Counter-Reformation, prelates of the Roman Church were required to live more simply and to moderate their enthusiasm for art and architecture. Nonetheless, many palaces were built, renovated and decorated with pomp by these same prelates. The role of art and architecture in staging the power has been well demonstrated, but less has been said about the devotional function of houses owned by important clergymen. This thesis proposes the first synthetic study of cardinals’ private devotional practices in Rome between 1550 and 1610 by looking at the patronage of their palaces. The analysis of the domestic chapels and studioli of the Salviati alla Lungara and Altemps palaces in Rome, the Farnese palace in Caprarola, the Del Drago palace in Bolsena, and the Villa d’Este in Tivoli demonstrates the important concern of the cardinals for their salvation and the role of art to arouse soteriological meditation within their domestic spaces. This careful examination allows us to propose that these devotional practices were carried out not only in the chapels, but also in rooms traditionally identified as studioli. Rather, we propose to designate them as hermitages or romitori, and to attach to them the same importance as the chapels in the daily piety of the post-Tridentine cardinals. The frescoes decorating these devotional spaces depicted the themes of the Passion of Christ, the life of the Virgin and other biblical figures, and of the cardinal and theological virtues, serving as tools for spiritual contemplation of the mystery of Redemption. The inclusion of copies of miraculous images or “substitute objects”, as proposed by Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood (2010), further guaranteed the cardinals eternal life thanks to the prayers carried out in the spaces where the icons were exhibited. This admission to paradise was also occasionally staged by the physical or metaphorical movement of the cardinal towards the logge painted with greenery or the palace’s gardens. Thus, more than a simple analysis of singular works or rooms, this thesis establishes a relationship between the spaces of the palaces to show that the cardinal domestic devotional behavior was then viewed and organized as a spiritual journey, in which art played a fundamental role.

The work deals with the dissemination, duration, transformations and reception of the cult of an important Jesuit Saint, St. Francis Xavier, in the early modern Czech lands. Its goal is to contribute to the better understanding of the reality of the re-catholicization after the Battle of White Montain and the forms of Czech spirituality of the 17th and 18th century. This particular cult was selected because of the fact that St. Francis Xavier was closely related to the main (or most prominent) participant of the re-catholicization, i. e. the Jesuit order, where he in the informal hierarchy of Saints occupied the second place immediately after the founder of the Society St. Ignacius of Loyola. Moreover, St. Francis Xavier belonged among the five new Catholic Saints canonized in 1622 (St. Ignacius of Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Philipp Neri, and St. Isidore of Madrid), who represented an important constituent of the revived post-Tridentine Catholic spirituality. However, although the existing secondary literature presupposes that the reverence to St. Francis Xavier was widespread in the Czech Baroque, no systematic study of this theme was realized untill now. First chapter deals with the specification of the theme of the work, maps existing knowledge and sources available and...

Cette recherche vise à élaborer une mariologie sociale en Afrique. Sa problématique tourne autour de trois questions principales : le culte marial est-il vécu comme une pratique libératrice au service de l’engagement pour la justice sociale ? La figure de la Vierge Marie constitue-t-elle une source d’inspiration qui permette aux chrétiens et aux chrétiennes catholiques romains de s’engager au niveau sociopolitique en Afrique ? Les engagements des chrétiens et des chrétiennes, épris de vertus mariales, participent-ils à l’avènement d’une société de justice, de paix et du vivre-ensemble harmonieux ? Ces questions sont posées dans un contexte large, celui de l’Afrique subsaharienne où plusieurs pays font face aux crises multiformes et, dans un cadre plus restreint, celui de la République Démocratique du Congo où quatre mouvements marials, basés à Kinshasa, ont fait objet d’études de terrain. Cette thèse prétend déconstruire et reconstruire la conception et le vécu des pratiques mariales afin que celles-ci deviennent un ferment qui pousse les chrétiens et les chrétiennes catholiques africains en général et congolais en particulier à s’engager dans la résolution des problèmes majeurs de leur société notamment au niveau de la justice, de la paix et de la question des femmes. Cette thèse cherche à dépasser deux types de mariologies produites en Afrique : la mariologie coloniale, qui concerne l’histoire de l’arrivée de la Vierge Marie à travers l’action des missionnaires qui ont évangélisé le continent africain et une certaine mariologie inculturée qui se limite à corréler des catégories culturelles africaines avec des thèmes classiques de mariologie. La réflexion épouse la voie d’une approche de mariologie sociale qui, mise en application par les Africains et les Africaines, peut aider à relever le défi lié aux multiples problèmes au niveau économique, politique, social et culturel que rencontre la majorité de pays africains. La recherche est abordée dans une perspective des théologies africaines de la libération et de la reconstruction à travers une démarche de contextualisation, de décontextualisation et de recontextualisation. La thèse comprend quatre parties. La première partie fait un état des lieux de la mariologie africaine. Elle situe cette dernière dans le parcours historique de la théologie africaine, analyse la dévotion mariale en Afrique à travers l’action missionnaire, étudie la question de l’inculturation de quelques mystères marials et se penche sur le lien entre la mariologie et les problèmes de société en Afrique. La seconde partie examine la question de la mariologie sociale en Amérique Latine. Elle étudie l’aspect sociopolitique de la dévotion mariale, l’anthropologie et l’herméneutique de la réflexion et des apparitions mariales, les dogmes marials dans une perspective sociale et la place occupée par la Vierge Marie et le culte marial dans le combat féministe en Amérique Latine. La troisième partie explore le rapport entre la pratique de la dévotion mariale et l’engagement sociopolitique de quatre mouvements marials (Légion de Marie, Communauté du Magnificat, Groupe de l’Arbre Desséché ou Nzete Ekauka et École de prière Notre-Dame Vierge Puissante) à Kinshasa. Elle jette un regard sur le contexte de naissance et d’évolution des mouvements d’action catholique dans leur ensemble et fait une analyse critique des pratiques mariales et de l’engagement sociopolitique de ces mouvements. La quatrième partie tente une recomposition du discours de mariologie sociale en Afrique à partir d’une lecture du Magnificat. Elle fait une actualisation de ce cantique pour enrichir la pratique du culte marial et présente trois axes sur lesquels peut porter une mariologie sociale en Afrique. / This research aims at developing a social Mariology in Africa. It deals with three main questions: Is Marian devotion lived as a liberating practice in view of a commitment for social justice? Is the figure of the Virgin Mary an inspiration which allows Roman Catholic Christian men and women to involve themselves at the sociopolitical level in Africa? Do the commitments of Christian men and women who love Marian virtues take part in the advent of a society of justice, peace and harmonious coexistence? Those questions are asked in a broad context, that of Sub-Saharan Africa, where many countries are facing multifaceted crises and, in a more limited context, that of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where four marials Movements, based in Kinshasa, were the objects of field studies. This thesis claims to deconstruct and reconstruct the concept and the lived-out experience of Marian practices, so that those practices may become a ferment leading African Catholic Christian men and women in general, and Congolese Catholic Christian men and women in particular, to commit themselves in the resolution of the major problems of their society, particularly in terms of justice, peace and women's issues. This thesis seeks to go beyond two types of Mariology produced in Africa: colonial Mariology, dealing with the history of the arrival of the Virgin Mary through the work of the missionaries who evangelized the African continent, and some kind of an acculturated Mariology, which limits itself to setting a correlation between African cultural categories and some classical themes of Mariology. This reflection takes a stand for a social Mariology, that is, an approach which, implemented by African men and women, can help them meet the challenges created by the many economic, political, social and cultural problems that most of the African countries are faced with. This research work is done in the perspective of the African theologies of liberation and in the perspective of a reconstruction, through a process of contextualization, de-contextualization and re-contextualization. This thesis is made up of four parts. The first part presents an overview of African Mariology. It sees it through the historical journey of African theology, it analyses Marian devotion in Africa through the works of missionaries, it studies the question of acculturation of a few Marian mysteries, and it focuses on the relationship between Mariology and the social problems in Africa. The second part examines the issue of social Mariology in Latin America. It studies the sociopolitical aspect of Marian devotion, the anthropology and the hermeneutics of the Marian reflection and of the Marian apparitions. It studies the Marian dogmas from a social perspective, and the place of the Virgin Mary and of Marian devotion in the feminist struggle in Latin America. The third part explores the relationship between the practice of Marian devotion and the sociopolitical commitment of four Catholic Action Movements that are present in Kinshasa: The Legion of Mary, the Magnificat Community, the Group of "l'Arbre Desséché" (Dried Tree Group) or Nzete Ekauka, and the Prayer School "Notre Dame, Vierge Puissante" (Our Lady, Powerful Virgin). It takes a look at the general context of the birth and evolution of those Catholic Action Movements, and it makes a critical analysis of the Marian practices and of the sociopolitical commitment of those movements. The fourth part attempts a reconstruction of the social discourse of Mariology in Africa, starting from a reading of the Magnificat. It makes an actualized reading of that song in view of enriching the practice of Marian devotion, and it presents three aspects on which social Mariology in Africa can rest.

À la charnière entre deux siècles, Salomé fait office de lieu commun inévitable de la littérature et des arts. Cependant, aux côtés de la femme fatale, s'affirme la présence discrète mais tout aussi inévitable de la féminité fragile et bienveillante, formée sur le modèle de la princesse de conte et de l'héroïne de roman gothique, mais surtout sur celui de la vierge et martyre du roman édifiant, qu'il soit antiquisant ou contemporain. Parfois discrète jusqu'à l'illisibilité, cet archétype n'est légitimé dans sa fonction bienveillante que par un sacrifice. La signification religieuse du bouc émissaire reste à la fois lisible et efficace dans les structures narratives du roman, mais aussi dans le détail de l'écriture de ces personnages. Les figures mariales, magdaléennes ou féeriques sont soumises à la même épreuve de destruction, par laquelle l'édification qu'elles symbolisent se fait littéralement construction de sens, juxtaposition d'éléments esthétiques disparates mais efficaces par lesquels un personnage en vient à représenter allégoriquement la création artistique elle-même. En reliant le milieu du XIXe siècle aux années 1920 et en mettant les plus connus des héritiers de Baudelaire en perspective avec ceux dont le nom commence à peine à revenir à la postérité, l'enjeu de la recherche est d'établir dans quelle mesure ces représentations de la féminité bienveillante relèvent d'une permanence, d'un monument – au sens de monumentum – où la fin de siècle va non seulement contempler la mort d'une époque révolue, mais concentrer tout ce qui sert, à l'aube du XXe siècle, à théoriser l'art idéaliste. / At the crossroads between two centuries, Salome plays the part of a mandatory commonplace in art and literature. Nevertheless, next to the femme fatale and just as unavoidable, stands a fragile and benevolent form of feminity, molded in the cast of the fairytale princess and theGothic novel heroine, but inspired above all by the Virgin and Martyr of the edifying novel, be it antique or contemporary. As it might be discrete enough to become unreadable, this archetype's benevolence cannot be legitimated without a sacrifice. The religious meaning of the scapegoat remains just as obvious and as efficient in the novels' narrative structure, as well as in the detailsthrough which such characters are built. Marial, magdalenian and farylike characters must undergo the same destruction trial, through which their edifying meaning becomes a litteral building-up up meaning, by juxtaposing dissimilar and yet efficien aesthetic elements which turn the character into an allegory of artistic creation. By linking mid-19th century and the 1920es and by weaving a link between the most famous of Baudelaire's heirs and the ones whose name is just merging out of oblivion, the purpose of this study is to analyse how much these representations of benevolent femininity must be seen as a permanence, as a monument – or as a monumentum – where late-19th century will not only gaze a the death of a declining era, but concentrate all what will be used to theorize idealist artistic movements on the edge of the 20th century.

CORDEIRO, Maria Paula Jacinto. Entre chegadas e partidas: dinâmicas das romarias em Juazeiro do Norte. 2010. 242f. Tese(Doutorado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-01-12T13:03:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_TESE_MPJCORDEIRO.pdf: 6867978 bytes, checksum: 8b7c517e4ec3cd48eb5f8045ffa1d3c3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-03-08T16:38:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_TESE_MPJCORDEIRO.pdf: 6867978 bytes, checksum: 8b7c517e4ec3cd48eb5f8045ffa1d3c3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-08T16:38:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_TESE_MPJCORDEIRO.pdf: 6867978 bytes, checksum: 8b7c517e4ec3cd48eb5f8045ffa1d3c3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / This thesis brings into focus devotion and diversion as seen in pilgrimages in the current century, taking into consideration the process related to the hierarchy of meanings. Beginning with interacting contexts found at pilgrimage scenario in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, this study questions perspective for continuity and change within pilgrimage practices. Among possibilities related to analysis of religious movements by the Social Sciences, notions about tourism and festivity are taken as models for interpretation of pilgrimages attaching them to narratives of experiences by participants. There is a concern in this work to demonstrate how relations among place, events and people involved in the pilgrimages are bound into indissociable elements for apprehension of the phenomenon. The bulk of representations that circulate among participants of the pilgrimage is presented by means of data collected from interviews, questionings and observations. Analysis encompasses identification of practices taken as legitimate values for pilgrimages, taking into consideration relations among the founding myth, the city and the pilgrims, and elements that point to new meanings. The upshot demonstrates that in spite of accumulating through the years other meanings besides the religious one, pilgrimages maintain their major remissive aspect, namely, relating themselves to the institution of the sacred which differentiate them from other formal symbolic repertoires to which participants turn when they desire to demarcate internal limits of belonging. Within the universe of individuals who qualify as pilgrims of Juazeiro do Norte the research points to aspects that indicate change and continuity encompassing traditional practices of pilgrimages. Besides, there is formation of different spaces in order to serve a demand of sociability and diversion among participants and their contribution to re-signify pilgrimages. / Esta tese foca os domínios da devoção e da diversão em romarias neste início de século, considerando o processo de hierarquização de sentidos. A partir de contextos de interações proporcionadas durante as romarias a Juazeiro do Norte, no Ceará, o estudo indaga as perspectivas de continuidade e mudança no conteúdo das práticas romeiras. Entre as possibilidades de análise dos fluxos religiosos nas Ciências Sociais, são tomadas como escopo as noções de peregrinação, turismo e festa como matrizes interpretativas das romarias alinhavando-as a narrações de experiências dos participantes. Há uma preocupação no trabalho em demonstrar como as relações entre o lugar, os eventos e as pessoas nas romarias, se constituem elementos indissociáveis na compreensão do fenômeno. O conjunto das representações que circulam sobre a romaria entre os seus participantes é apresentado através de dados produzidos com entrevistas, inquéritos e observação. A análise abrange a identificação das práticas tidas como legítimas das romarias, considerando as relações entre o mito fundador, a cidade e os romeiros; e os elementos que apontam para novas significações. Os resultados demonstram que embora as romarias tenham agregado ao longo do tempo outros sentidos além do religioso, seu principal aspecto remissivo continua relacionado a instituição do sagrado que se diferencia de outros repertórios simbólicos formais aos quais os praticantes recorrem quando querem marcar fronteiras internas de pertencimento. No universo dos indivíduos que se classificam como romeiros em Juazeiro do Norte, a pesquisa aponta aspectos que indicam mudanças e permanências nas práticas romeiras tradicionais. Além disso, há a constituição de espaços diferenciados para atender a demanda de sociabilidade e diversão entre os participantes e suas implicações na ressignificação das romarias.

Cette étude se propose de dégager les liens étroits qui unissent la production picturale des anciens Pays-Bas des XVe et XVIe siècles avec la mystique de Ruysbroeck l’Admirable et la pensée de la Dévotion moderne (devotio moderna). À partir d’un corpus comprenant des oeuvres de Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes, le Maître à la vue de Sainte-Gudule, le Maître de 1499, le Maître d’Alkmaar, Jérôme Bosch ou encore Gérard David et Jan Mostaert, l’analyse fait apparaître que peinture et écrits se répondent et se subliment mutuellement. Dans une première partie, nous observerons la façon dont les peintres ont décliné la progression dynamique des différentes visions (active, intérieure et contemplative) et traité le phénomène de désimagination. Puis, dans un deuxième temps, notre étude mettra en lumière que l’image soutient grâce à différents procédés (mnémotechnique, participatif, etc.) les pratiques spirituelles et méditatives des fidèles. Enfin dans la dernière phase de notre analyse, nous nous intéresserons aux mises en images d’une idée clé définie par Ruysbroeck l’Admirable, et adaptée par les auteurs de la Dévotion moderne : dat ghemeine leven (la vie commune). / This study intends to investigate and clarify the links between the Early Netherlandish pictorial tradition (15th and 16th centuries) and mystical literature as exemplified by Ruysbroeck the Admirable and the authors associated with the Modern Devotion (devotio moderna). Focusing on a corpus of works by Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes, the Master of the View of St Gudule, the Master of 1499, the Master of Alkmaar, Hieronymus Bosch, Gerard David and Jan Mostaert, this analysis brings to light that painting and writing enrich each other’s meaning. In the first part, we shall observe the ways in which the painters captured the dynamic progression of the various types of vision (active, internal and contemplative) as well as the ways in which they addressed the phenomenon of disimagination. The second part of this study will highlight the fact that the image supports the spiritual and meditative practices of the faithful through various processes and techniques (mnemonic, participative etc.). The third part of the analysis will focus on the visual treatment of a key idea defined by Ruysbroeck the Admirable, and adapted by the authors of the Modern Devotion: dat ghemeine leven (the common life).

A deep visual analysis of Ludovico Carracci’s 1588 Madonna and Child, Angels, and Saints Francis, Dominic, Mary Magdalene and the Donor Cecilia Bargellini Boncompagni with an emphasis on the role of the patron, the significance of the locality, and the visual semiotics of the Virgin Mary’s gaze in prompting conversion in the repentant prostitutes of the Carmelite convertite convent associated with Ss. Filippo and Giacomo in Bologna, Italy. Including a commentary on contemporary social expectations of modest behavior and the painting’s deliberate incorporation of inappropriate female behavior towards a religious purpose. A discussion of uniquely Carmelite iconography, the use of Ignatian mental prayer in convents, and self-determination in imagery by a Bolognese aristocratic woman.