| Author | : Laura Weigert |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2015-12-30 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1107040477 |
This book revives the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes.
French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater
| Author | : Laura Weigert |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2015-12-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316412121 |
This book revives what was unique, strange and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts and practices to explore this tradition of late medieval performance located not in 'theaters' but in churches, courts, and city streets and squares. By stressing the theatricality rather than the realism of fifteenth-century visual culture and the spectacular rather than the devotional nature of its effects, she offers a new way of thinking about late medieval representation and spectatorship. She shows how images that ostensibly document medieval performance instead revise its characteristic features to conform to a playgoing experience that was associated with classical antiquity. This retrospective vision of the late medieval performance tradition contributed to its demise in sixteenth-century France and promoted assumptions about medieval theater that continue to inform the contemporary disciplines of art and theater history.
A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages
| Author | : Jody Enders |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2019-08-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1350135321 |
Historically 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.
The Waxing of the Middle Ages
| Author | : Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2023-04-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1644532921 |
Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga’s perceptions of individual works or genres. Still, the vision of the Late French and Burgundian Middle Ages as a sad transitional phase between the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance persists. Yet, a series of exceptionally significant cultural developments mark the period. The Waxing of the Middle Ages sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study of these developments and to reassert that late medieval France is crucial in its own right. The collection argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period that is key in understanding the fluidity of time, traditions, culture, and history. Each essay explores some “cultural form,” to borrow Huizinga’s expression, to expose the false divide that has dominated modern scholarship.
Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art
| Author | : Gabriella Mazzon |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2018-05-23 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9004355588 |
Pathos as Communicative Strategy in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art explores the strategies employed to trigger emotional responses in late-medieval dramatic texts from several Western European traditions, and juxtaposes these texts with artistic productions from the same areas, with an emphasis on Britain. The aim is to unravel the mechanisms through which pathos was produced and employed, mainly through the representation of pain and suffering, with mainly religious, but also political aims. The novelty of the book resides in its specific linguistic perspective, which highlights the recurrent use of words, structures and dialogic patterns in drama to reinforce messages on the salvific value of suffering, in synergy with visual messages produced in the same cultural milieu.
Gale Researcher Guide for: The Languages, Codes, and Genres of Medieval Theater
| Author | : Joseph P. Dane |
| Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
| Total Pages | : 16 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Study Aids |
| ISBN | : 1535852658 |
Gale Researcher Guide for: The Languages, Codes, and Genres of Medieval Theater is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art
| Author | : Katherine T. Brown |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2020-02-18 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 042951607X |
In The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art, Katherine T. Brown explores the lore of the apocryphal character of Veronica and the history of the “true image” relic as factors in the Franciscans’ placement of her character into the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) as the Sixth Station, in both Jerusalem and Western Europe, around the turn of the fifteenth century. Katherine T. Brown examines how the Franciscans adopted and adapted the legend of Veronica to meet their own evangelical goals by intervening in the fabric of Jerusalem to incorporate her narrative − which is not found in the Gospels − into an urban path constructed for pilgrims, as well as in similar participatory installations in churchyards and naves across Western Europe. This book proposes plausible reasons for the subsequent proliferation of works of art depicting Veronica, both within and independent of the Stations of the Cross, from the early fifteenth through the mid-seventeenth centuries. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, theology, and medieval and Renaissance studies.
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages
| Author | : Jody Enders |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2021-05-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1350154946 |
For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world's most enduring art forms. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
The Digby Mary Magdalene Play
| Author | : Theresa Coletti |
| Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2018-02-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1580442862 |
The Digby Play of Mary Magdalene is a rare, surviving example of the Middle English saint play. It provides a window on the deep embedding of biblical drama and performance in late medieval devotional practices, social aspiration and critique, and religious discourses. Fully annotated and extensively glossed, this edition adds to the METS Drama series an essential resource for the study of late medieval English religious drama.
