9789042018051 - Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichende, Band 86) (4 Ergebnisse)

Original publisher's sewn light-brown paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: 206pp., illustrated, footnotes, bibliographical notes, 11contributions, list contributors. CONTENTS: Tobias Döring: Introduction. 1. Paul Strohm: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Commemoration and Repetition in Late Medieval Culture. 2. Andrew James Johnston: The Secret of the Sacred: Confession and the Self in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 3. Thomas Healy: Performing the Self: Reformation History and the English Renaissance Lyric. 4. Andreas Höfele: Stages of Martyrdom: John Foxe's Actes and Monuments. 5. Andrew Hadfield: James VI and I, George Buchanan and the Divine Right of Kings. 6. Verena Olejniczak Lobsien: Transformed in show, but more transformed in mind: Sidney's Old Arcadia and the Performance of Perfection. 7. Susanne Rupp: Performing Heaven: The State of Grace in Seventeenth-Century Protestant Theology. 8. Richard Wilson: Dyed in Mummy: Othello and the Mulberries. 9. Ina Schabert: The Lady's Supper: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum as a Female Celebration of the Eucharist. 10. Irmgard Maassen: Canonized by Love? Religious Rhetoric and Gender-Fashioning in the Sonnet. 11. Sabine Schülting: Tobacco - Sacred and Profane. Very fine copy - as new., Volume 86: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Communities have often shaped themselves around cultural spaces set apart and declared sacred. For this purpose, churches, priests or scholars no less than writers frequently participate in giving sacred figures a local habitation and, sometimes, voice or name. But whatever sites, rites, images or narratives have thus been constructed, they also raise some complex questions: how can the sacred be presented and yet guarded, claimed yet concealed, staged in public and at the same time kept exclusive Such questions are pursued here in a variety of English texts historically employed to manifest and manage versions of the sacred. But since their performances inhabit social space, this often functions as a theatrical arena which is also used to stage modes of dissent, difference, sacrifice and sacrilege. In this way, all aspects of social life - the family, the nation, the idea of kingship, gender identities, courtly ideals, love making or smoking - may become sacralized and buttress claims for power by recourse to a repertoire of religious symbolic forms.Through critical readings of central texts and authors - such as Sir Gawain, Foxe, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, or Vaughan - as well as less canonical examples - the Croxton play, Buchanan, Lanyer, Wroth, or the tobacco pamphlets - the twelve contributions all engage with the crucial question how, and to what end, performances of the sacred affect, or effect, cultural transformation.