The Planctus Mariae in the Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages
Author: Sandro Sticca
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 280
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The Planctus Mariae in the Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages
Author: Sandro Sticca
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe
Author: Lynette R. Muir
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-09-18
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521542104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a detailed survey and analysis of the surviving corpus of biblical drama from all parts of medieval Christian Europe. Over five hundred plays from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries are examined, in a wide-ranging discussion which makes available the full scope of this important part of theatre history. The volume is specially organised to provide a complete overview of major aspects of medieval biblical theatre, including the theatrical community of both audience and players; the major plays and cycles; and the legacy of medieval biblical theatre. The book also includes valuable appendices with information on the liturgical calendar, processions, and the Mass and the Bible.
The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University
Author: Thomas Meacham
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-01-20
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1501512927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no "drama" in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it "an impressively learned discussion" and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.
A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages
Author: Jody Enders
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1350135313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages encompass a millennium of cultural conflicts and developments. A large body of mystery, passion, miracle and morality plays cohabited with song, dance, farces and other public spectacles, frequently sharing ecclesiastical and secular inspiration. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre between 500 and 1500, and imaginatively pieces together the puzzle of medieval theatre by foregrounding the study of performance. Each of the ten chapters of this richly illustrated volume takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: J. Leeds Barroll
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1995-03
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780838635704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.
The Circulation of Power in Medieval Biblical Drama
Author: Robert S. Sturges
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-10-07
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1137073446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA literary reading informed by the recent temporal turn in Queer Theory, this book analyzes medieval Biblical drama for themes representing modes of power such as the body, politics, and law. Revitalizing the discussions on medieval drama, Sturges asserts that these dramas were often intended not to teach morality but to resist Christian authority.
Music and Performance in the Book of Hours
Author: Michael Alan Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-06-14
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1000591956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study uncovers the musical foundations and performance suggestions of books of hours, guides to prayer that were the most popular and widespread books of the late Middle Ages. Exploring a variety of musical genres and sections of books of hours with musical implications, this book presents a richly textured sound world gleaned from dozens of extant manuscript sources from fifteenth-century France. It offers the first overview of the musical content of these handbooks to liturgy and devotional prayer, together with cues that show scribal awareness for the articulation of sacred plainchants. Although books of hours lack musical notation, this survey elucidates the full range of musical genres and styles suggested both within and beyond the liturgical offices prescribed in books of hours. Privileging sound and ritual enactment in the experience of the hours, the survey complements studies of visual imagery that have dominated the category. The book’s interdisciplinary approach within a musical context, and beautiful full-color illustrations, will attract not only specialists in musicology, liturgy, and late medieval studies, but also those more broadly interested in the history of the book, memory, performance studies, and art history.
Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh
Author: Karma Lochrie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012-07-24
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 081220753X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads The Book of Margery Kempe, demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing, her inappropriate-seeming laughter, and the most notorious aspect of her mysticism, her "hysterical" weeping expressions of religious desire. Lochrie challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions of Kempe's illiteracy, her role in the writing of her book, her misunderstanding of mystical concepts, and the failure of her book to influence a reading community. In her work and her life, Kempe consistently crossed the barriers of those cultural taboos designed to exclude and silence her. Instead of viewing Kempe as marginal to the great mystical and literary traditions of the late Middle Ages, this study takes her seriously as a woman responding to the cultural constraints and exclusions of her time. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval studies, intellectual history, and feminist theory.
Texts of the Passion
Author: Thomas H. Bestul
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1512800872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Thomas H. Bestul constructs the literary history of the Latin Passion narratives, placing them within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. He examines the ways in which the Passion is narrated and renarrated in devotional treatises, paying particular attention to the modifications and enlargements of the narrative of the Passion as it is presented in the canonical gospels. Of particular interest to Bestul are the representations of Jews, women, and the body of the crucified Christ. Bestul argues that the greatly enlarged role of the Jews in the Passion narratives of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is connected to the rising anti-Judaism of the period. He explores how the representations of women, particularly the Virgin Mary, express cultural values about the place of women in late medieval society and reveal an increased interest in female subjectivity.
