The Rich Man and Lazarus on the Reformation Stage
The Rich Man and Lazarus on the Reformation Stage

Author: Stephen L. Wailes

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780945636885

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"The Rich Man and Lazarus," one of Jesus' best known parables, has been the subject of discussion and interpretation from the Church Fathers to the present day. Ten plays written in German during the sixteenth century dramatize this parable. Despite the fact that the parable and these plays are concerned with wealth and poverty, damnation and salvation - ideas that are at the very center of the social turmoil and theological struggles of the Reformation - the plays are virtually unknown, in part because six of the ten have not been reprinted or edited since they appeared between 1550 and 1579.

Court Culture in Dresden
Court Culture in Dresden

Author: H. Watanabe-O'Kelly

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-03-07

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0230514499

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This is the first cultural history of Baroque Dresden, the capital of Saxony and the most important Protestant territory in the Empire from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly shows how the art patronage of the Electors fits into the intellectual climate of the age and investigates its political and religious context. Lutheran church music and architecture, the influence of Italy, the cabinet of curiosities and the culture of collecting, alchemy, mining and early technology, official image-making and court theatre are some of the wealth of colourful subjects dealt with during the period 1553 to 1733.

What Are They Saying About the Parables? Second Edition
What Are They Saying About the Parables? Second Edition

Author: Gowler, David B.

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1587688506

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Much has changed in the more than two decades since the first edition of this book appeared. Parable scholarship continues to be a dynamic area of New Testament research, and a number of important studies were published and significant developments have occurred during those years. Jesus’s parables, these simple but profound stories, continue to challenge us, and, even after many readings, continue to reveal new insights.

Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England
Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

Author: Jennifer C. Vaught

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 131706321X

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Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal mainly with modern literary works. This collection of essays examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health-metaphor, simile, pun, analogy, symbol, personification, allegory, oxymoron, and metonymy-inform medieval and early modern literature, religion, science, and medicine in England and its surrounding European context. In keeping with the critical trend over the past decade to foreground the matter of the body and the emotions, these essays track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health ” physical, emotional, and spiritual. The contributors to this collection approach their intriguing subjects from a wide range of timely, theoretical, and interdisciplinary perspectives, including the philosophy of language, semiotics, and linguistics; ecology; women's and gender studies; religion; and the history of medicine. The essays focus on works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others; the genres of epic, lyric, satire, drama, and the sermon; and cultural history artifacts such as medieval anatomies, the arithmetic of plague bills of mortality, meteorology, and medical guides for healthy regimens.

Theater, Culture, and Community in Reformation Bern
Theater, Culture, and Community in Reformation Bern

Author: Glenn Ehrstine

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9789004123533

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This study examines the sociocultural context of Bern's ten Reformation plays, authored by Niklaus Manuel and Hans von Rute, and argues that Protestant theater was instrumental in creating cultural community among an urban populace estranged from Catholic tradition.

Patron Saint and Prophet
Patron Saint and Prophet

Author: Phillip N. Haberkern

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0190280735

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The sainted Hus -- The founder -- The patron -- The apocalyptic witness -- The prophet -- The Catholic -- The exemplar

Sins of the Fathers
Sins of the Fathers

Author: Hilaire Kallendorf

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-12-06

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 144266102X

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Sins of the Fathers considers sins as nodes of cultural anxiety and explores the tensions between competing organizational categories for moral thought and behaviours, namely the Seven Deadly Sins and the Ten Commandments. Hilaire Kallendorf explores the decline and rise of these organizational categories against critical transformations of the early modern period, such as the accession of Spain to a position of world dominance and the arrival of a new courtly culture to replace an old warrior ethos. This ground-breaking study is the first to consider Spanish Golden Age comedias as an archive of moral knowledge. Kallendorf has examined over 800 of these plays to illustrate how they provide insight into aspects of early modern experience such as food, sex, work, and money. Finally, Kallendorf engages the theoretical terminology of Marxist literary criticism to demonstrate the inherent ambiguity of cultural change.