Traces popular passion piety by examining the representations of the cross in early inscriptions and sketches, the devotion to the cross in the age of Constantine, the focus on the cross in the lives of monks and martyrs, the emphasis on divine transcendence at the beginning of the middle ages, the roots of meditation on the last days and hours of the life of Jesus in the monastic lectio divina, the place of Bernard of Clairvaux as the initiator of devotion to the humanity of Christ, Franciscan and Dominican devotion to the passion, the introduction of cyclic dramas of the passion in the 15th century, and the continuation of the passion tradition in reformers such as Martin Luther with his theology of the cross.

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