The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages - Hardcover

Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. XIV, 252 S. / p. Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - In this ambitious interdisciplinary study of drama, visual arts, and lay and monastic spirituality, Gail Gibson provides a provocative general reappraisal of fifteenth-century English culture through a detailed portrait of the rich and flourishing counties of Suffolk and Norfolk. By emphasizing the importance of the Incarnation of Christ as a model and a justification for late medieval drama and art, Gibson challenges currently held views of the secularization of late medieval culture. Her interpretation of religious images and activity reveals an incarnational aesthetic - an insistence on particular, corporal religious images perceived in the world, images by which fifteenth-century devotion objectified and personalized the spiritual and the abstract. -- Situating this aesthetic in the example of Suffolk and Norfolk, Gibson shows how the region s brisk cloth trade fostered some of the most splendid parish churches in England as well as a rich and diverse tradition of vernacular drama. Gibson both focuses on drama and extends its definition beyond texts to encompass primary evidence employed in the larger incarnational theater of the day. Wills, guild records, tomb monuments, chantry chapels, stained-glass windows, devotional lyrics, and saints lives all converged to create a public and private theater expressing human need, festivity, and community. Within this world saturated with sacramental possibility, regional and private expressions of piety emerged, such as the "funeral theater" that cloth merchants meticulously planned in their wills, the self-conscious devotional theater of the Norfolk mystic Margery Kempe, and invocations for safe childbirth that preoccupied the worried women in the audiences of Nativity plays. In her most controversial chapter, Gibson links many of the surviving East Anglian play texts with the powerful Benedictine abbey at Bury St. Edmunds, arguing that evidence supports monastic involvement in religious theater. The Theater of Devotion concludes by examining the nature of popular Marian piety in East Anglia and some of its images in late medieval painting and dramatic iconography. ISBN 9780226291017 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630 Original Leinen kaschiert mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth laminated with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1233218

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