Where is there, O death, Your Victory? The Motif of Death in Adam’s Sequences from St Victor

The article discusses the death motif in the sequences that Adam of St Victor wrote. Divided into several sections (Paschal sequences, on the feasts of the Lord, Marian sequences, on the saints of the Lord) it shows a varied description of the death motif. Death can be seen both objectively as an event and subjectively as a figure hostile to Christ and humans. Through Christ’s Resurrection, it has been overcome. The saints of the Lord, and especially the Virgin Mary, share in this victory of Christ and show that although death is a threat to eternal life, it is possible to triumph over it and pass through it to new life, in the glory of heaven.