{"id":1379,"date":"2025-02-12T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2025-04-18T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:36:22","slug":"kissing-the-kiss-of-betrayal-a-study-of-veneration-in-the-berners-book-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/17\/kissing-the-kiss-of-betrayal-a-study-of-veneration-in-the-berners-book-of-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissing the Kiss of Betrayal: A Study of Veneration in the Berners\u2019 Book of Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Bronwyn Burke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kissing the Kiss of Betrayal was the final research project I completed for VMC 341, taught by Prof. Arnie Sanders. I was interested in working with medieval manuscripts, and Prof. Sanders recommended that I explore the Berners Book of Hours, ensuring me that I would find something worth writing about within its leaves. I was immediately struck by the vivid religious imagery within the text, especially the depictions of Christ&#8217;s Passion. However, I was taken aback by signs of veneration on the image of Judas Iscariot, a Biblical figure with traditionally negative associations. This image sent me on a journey exploring the complex world of medieval Catholic spirituality and devotional practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/files\/2025\/04\/VMC001_2024_Finalwithfigures.pdf\">Kissing the Kiss of Betrayal: A Study of Veneration in the Berners\u2019 Book of Hours<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Copyrights of all Verge articles and editorial material belong to the authors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most curious instance of veneration in the Berners Hours appears not on a saint\u2019s illumination, but on an image of a grave sinner.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, some positive, or at least nuanced, interpretations of Judas\u2019 role in the Passion saga exist, and these interpretations may explain the veneration in the Berners Hours.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Catholics would have been familiar with the Instruments of the Passion, whether by exposure in a church setting or at home, and would have venerated them as part of the Redemptive mystery.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54551"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}