Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2022

Salve regina in late medieval Dominican communities

Résumé

This article discusses one particular chant, Salve regina, and studies its evolution within the Dominican liturgy, concentrating on the context of the female branch of the order in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Salve regina can be called votive, devotional or commemorative and forms an intriguing subject for the study of the question of liturgical or devotional practices. A historical survey of this particular liturgical chant is complemented by a presentation of different melodic versions from female Dominican convents. Also, a chronicle from Engelthal, near Nuremberg, with short mystical narratives about Dominican sisters and probably written by Christine Ebner (1277-1356) is introduced, which relates that one of the sisters, Sophie of Neitstein, died at the age of twenty-four while singing Salve regina. Here the chant clearly has a more devotional function, becoming a personal prayer in German. Not only Salve regina, but also Pater noster, Ave Maria and different hymns were translated into German in order to facilitate meditation in the sisters’ mother tongue. While the liturgical use was linked with the end of the day, Salve regina in Latin or German is used as chant or prayer for a private devotional practice at times of serious illness or death.

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hal-03866671 , version 1 (22-11-2022)

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Kristin Hoefener. Salve regina in late medieval Dominican communities. Routledge. Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages: Image and Performance, Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky et Gerhard Jaritz (éd.), Taylor and Francis, pp. 106-125, 2022, 9781003179054. ⟨10.4324/9781003179054⟩. ⟨hal-03866671⟩
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