Abstract
The paper focuses on The Dream of the Virgin, a late medieval apocryphal writing, which has enjoyed an important European transmission. According to the text, the Virgin had a prophetic dream, in which she foresaw the Passion and the death of Christ. The author discusses the tendency of certain Romanian versions, preserved in manuscripts dating from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, to describe the Passion in a versified form. The investigation reconstructs the context in which this tendency has first occurred and reveals that many texts (sermons, liturgical and traditional poems) meant to be read in public at significant moments of the religious calendar shared various themes with the apocryphal writing. Thus, their public use, rhythmic character and intertextuality with The Dream of the Virgin could have shaped the form of the text and occasionally they could have turned prose into poetry.
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