medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Neff, Amy. "The Pain of Compassio: Mary's Labor at the Foot of the Cross." Art Bulletin 80 (1998): 254-73 is a good starting point.
Note also Shoemaker, Stephen J. "Mary at the Cross, East and West: Maternal Compassion and Affective Piety in the Earliest Life of the Virgin and the High Middle Ages." The Journal of Theological Studies 62, no. 2 (2011): 570-606, who argues against the common assumption that affective piety concerning Mary's pain at the foot of the cross begins with Anselm, and instead locates its roots in the early medieval Byzantine tradition.
For brief but highly circulated vernacular texts, see many of the excerpts in Bartlett, Anne Clark, and Thomas Howard Bestul, eds. Cultures of piety: medieval English devotional literature in translation. Cornell University Press, 1999.
Also, if no one has mentioned it, the best overview of the Latin Passion tradition post 1200 is Bestul, Thomas H. Texts of the Passion: Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
Jessica A. Boon
Assistant Professor, Medieval/Early Modern Christianity
Dept. of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC, 27599-3225
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