Author: Charlotte Steenbrugge
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580442781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This full-length study investigates how sermons and vernacular religious drama worked as media for public learning, how they combined this didactic aim with literary exigencies, and how plays acquired and reflected authority. The interrelation between sermons and vernacular drama, formerly assumed to be a close one, is addressed from historical connections, performative aspects, and the portrayal of penance. The work demonstrates the subtly different purposes and contents and outlines the unique ways in which they operate within late medieval England.
Drama and Sermon in Late Medieval England
Author: Charlotte Steenbrugge
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580442781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This full-length study investigates how sermons and vernacular religious drama worked as media for public learning, how they combined this didactic aim with literary exigencies, and how plays acquired and reflected authority. The interrelation between sermons and vernacular drama, formerly assumed to be a close one, is addressed from historical connections, performative aspects, and the portrayal of penance. The work demonstrates the subtly different purposes and contents and outlines the unique ways in which they operate within late medieval England.
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580442781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This full-length study investigates how sermons and vernacular religious drama worked as media for public learning, how they combined this didactic aim with literary exigencies, and how plays acquired and reflected authority. The interrelation between sermons and vernacular drama, formerly assumed to be a close one, is addressed from historical connections, performative aspects, and the portrayal of penance. The work demonstrates the subtly different purposes and contents and outlines the unique ways in which they operate within late medieval England.
Contexts for Early English Drama
Author: Marianne G. Briscoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Preaching, Politics and Poetry in Late-medieval England
Author: Alan J. Fletcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Between the early 14th and early 15th centur ies, England experienced momentous social and political turb ulence. This volume studies the impact of the Church during the period in question. '
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Between the early 14th and early 15th centur ies, England experienced momentous social and political turb ulence. This volume studies the impact of the Church during the period in question. '
Traditions of Medieval English Drama
Author: Stanley J. Kahrl
Publisher: [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburg Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburg Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400224
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages presents research by specialists of preaching history and literature. This volume fills some of the lacunae which exists in medieval sermon studies. The topics include: an analysis of how oral and written cultures meet in sermon literature, the function of vernacular sermons, an examination of the usefulness of non-sermon sources such as art in the study of preaching history, sermon genres, the significance of heretical preaching, audience composition and its influence on sermon content, and the use of rhetoric in sermon construction. The study looks at preaching history and literature from a wide geographical and chronological area which includes examples from Anglo-Saxon England to late medieval Italy. While doing so, it outlines the state of sermon studies research and points to new areas of investigation.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400224
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages presents research by specialists of preaching history and literature. This volume fills some of the lacunae which exists in medieval sermon studies. The topics include: an analysis of how oral and written cultures meet in sermon literature, the function of vernacular sermons, an examination of the usefulness of non-sermon sources such as art in the study of preaching history, sermon genres, the significance of heretical preaching, audience composition and its influence on sermon content, and the use of rhetoric in sermon construction. The study looks at preaching history and literature from a wide geographical and chronological area which includes examples from Anglo-Saxon England to late medieval Italy. While doing so, it outlines the state of sermon studies research and points to new areas of investigation.
Medieval English Drama
Author: Katie Normington
Publisher: Polity
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places particular emphasis on the importance of the performance contexts of these events, bringing to life a period before permanent theatre buildings when performances took place in a wide variety of locations and had to fight to attract and maintain the attention of an audience. Showing the interplay between dramatic and everyday life, the book covers performances in convents, churches, parishes, street processions and parades, and in particular distinguishes between modes of outdoor and indoor performance. Katie Normington aids the reader to a fuller understanding of these early English dramatic practices by explaining the significance of the place of performance, the particularities of spectatorship for each event and how the conventions of the form of drama were manipulated to address its reception. Audiences considered range from cloistered members, congregations and parish members to urban citizens, nobles and royalty. Undergraduate students of literature of this period will find this an approachable and illuminating guide.
Publisher: Polity
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places particular emphasis on the importance of the performance contexts of these events, bringing to life a period before permanent theatre buildings when performances took place in a wide variety of locations and had to fight to attract and maintain the attention of an audience. Showing the interplay between dramatic and everyday life, the book covers performances in convents, churches, parishes, street processions and parades, and in particular distinguishes between modes of outdoor and indoor performance. Katie Normington aids the reader to a fuller understanding of these early English dramatic practices by explaining the significance of the place of performance, the particularities of spectatorship for each event and how the conventions of the form of drama were manipulated to address its reception. Audiences considered range from cloistered members, congregations and parish members to urban citizens, nobles and royalty. Undergraduate students of literature of this period will find this an approachable and illuminating guide.
The Grief of God
Author: Ellen M. Ross
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019510451X
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Analyzing a wide range of textual and pictorial evidence, the author finds that the bleeding flesh of the wounded Savior manifests divine presence; in the intensified corporeality of the suffering Jesus whose flesh not only condemns, but also nurtures, heals, and feeds, believers meet a trinitarian God of mercy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019510451X
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Analyzing a wide range of textual and pictorial evidence, the author finds that the bleeding flesh of the wounded Savior manifests divine presence; in the intensified corporeality of the suffering Jesus whose flesh not only condemns, but also nurtures, heals, and feeds, believers meet a trinitarian God of mercy.
Performance and Religion in Early Modern England
Author: Matthew J. Smith
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268104689
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England, Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of “the theatrical.” By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance culture. Smith argues that early modern theatrical and religious practices are better understood through a comparative study of multiple performance types: not only commercial plays but also ballads, jigs, sermons, pageants, ceremonies, and festivals. Our definition of performance culture is augmented by the ways these events looked, sounded, felt, and even tasted to their audiences. This expanded view illustrates how the post-Reformation period utilized new capabilities brought about by religious change and continuity alike. Smith posits that theatrical practice at this time was acutely aware of its power not just to imitate but to work performatively, and to create spaces where audiences could both imaginatively comprehend and immediately enact their social, festive, ethical, and religious overtures. Each chapter in the book builds on the previous ones to form a cumulative overview of early modern performance culture. This book is unique in bringing this variety of performance types, their archives, venues, and audiences together at the crossroads of religion and theater in early modern England. Scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and those generally interested in the Renaissance will enjoy this book.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268104689
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England, Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of “the theatrical.” By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance culture. Smith argues that early modern theatrical and religious practices are better understood through a comparative study of multiple performance types: not only commercial plays but also ballads, jigs, sermons, pageants, ceremonies, and festivals. Our definition of performance culture is augmented by the ways these events looked, sounded, felt, and even tasted to their audiences. This expanded view illustrates how the post-Reformation period utilized new capabilities brought about by religious change and continuity alike. Smith posits that theatrical practice at this time was acutely aware of its power not just to imitate but to work performatively, and to create spaces where audiences could both imaginatively comprehend and immediately enact their social, festive, ethical, and religious overtures. Each chapter in the book builds on the previous ones to form a cumulative overview of early modern performance culture. This book is unique in bringing this variety of performance types, their archives, venues, and audiences together at the crossroads of religion and theater in early modern England. Scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and those generally interested in the Renaissance will enjoy this book.
The N-Town Play
Author: Penny Granger
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
First full examination of the N-Town Play, arguing for its reappraisal as a work of private devotion as well as public performance.
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
First full examination of the N-Town Play, arguing for its reappraisal as a work of private devotion as well as public performance.
Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art
Author: Gabriella Mazzon
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004355588
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art explores the connections between the language of European late-medieval drama and co-temporary themes and motifs in visual communication, focussing on the triggering of emotional reactions in the viewers as a persuasive device.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004355588
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art explores the connections between the language of European late-medieval drama and co-temporary themes and motifs in visual communication, focussing on the triggering of emotional reactions in the viewers as a persuasive device.