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SEMINAR: Reconstructing Calvary: Women and Ritual Lamentation at the House of Mary in Ephesus

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Reconstructing Calvary: Women and Ritual Lamentation at the House of Mary in Ephesus : ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Seminar Other events...
In 1891, two Lazarist priests, Eugene Poulin and Henry Jung, along with Sister Marie de Mandat Grancey, uncovered a small house-church in Ephesus, where they claimed the Virgin Mary had lived out her final years. Although scholars dismiss the site due to its questionable authenticity, today the little building continues to be a focal point of popular piety. The mystical narratives of German Augustinian nun, Anne Catherine Emmerich, compelled Poulin and Jung to embark upon a mission to “discover” the House of Mary. After the suppression of her beloved convent in 1811, Emmerich experienced visions in which she journeyed to the Holy Land and to Ephesus. German poet Clemens Bretano recorded her virtual journeys in The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1833) and The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1852). In her visions of Mary’s house-church at Ephesus, she witnessed the Virgin recreating the Stations of the Cross on the hillside near the house. My paper proposes that the Virgin’s emotionally charged ritual reconstruction of the Passion liberated the Virgin and Emmerich from the male-dominated space of the church. As the first mourner of Christ, the Virgin placed the lamentation ritual within the feminine domain of influence, providing women with agency and with the ability to somatically identify with the suffering male body of Christ. Thus, Emmerich’s mystical Calvary – which later became public and concrete through the actions of Sister Marie – enabled women to autonomously forge their own paths to Christ without the aid of a male intercessor.

Shannon Emily Gilmore is a PhD Candidate with the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where she is writing her dissertation, entitled 'Miracles at the Margins: The Popular Piety of Miraculous Images in Quattrocento Tuscany'. In 2009, she was awarded her MA in Italian Renaissance Art History from Syracuse University, having been selected as a fellow in their Florence, Italy graduate program. She is currently the recipient of the UCSB Graduate Humanities Research Fellowship, the Albert and Elaine Borchard European Studies Fellowship and the Dissertation Support Grant from the University of California Humanities Research Institute.
Speaker(s) Shannon Gilmore (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Location Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, first floor, Arts Building), UWA
Contact Pam Bond <[email protected]> : 64883858
URL http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/reconstructing-calvary-women-and-ritual-lamentation-at-the-house-of-mary-in-ephesus/
Start Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:30
End Fri, 06 Oct 2017 16:30
Submitted by Joanne McEwan <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:26
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