Author: John WrightPublisher:
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Category : Play
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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The Play of Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo. Engl.) Transl., with an Introd. by John Wright
Author: John WrightThe Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)
Author: Kyle A. ThomasPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501513575
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a critical point in the power-struggle between the papacy and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. This new translation and commentary reveals this drama to be strikingly representative of the role that theatrical performance played in shaping contemporary politics, diplomacy, and public opinion. It also shows how drama functioned as an integral component of the educational curricula of elite monastic institutions like Tegernsee, where political administrators and diplomats were trained, and how performance served as a common, connective lingua franca among monasteries in twelfth-century Bavaria. In this new translation, Carol Symes provides the first full and faithful rendering of the play’s dynamic language, maintaining the meter, rhyme scheme, and stage directions of the Latin original and restoring the liturgical elements embedded in the text. Kyle A. Thomas, whose fully-staged production tested the theatricality of this translation, provides a new historical and dramaturgical analysis of the play’s rich interpretive and performative possibilities.
The Play of Antichrist
Author: John WrightPublisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888442567
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Dominion of God
Author: Brett Edward WhalenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674054806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Brett Whalen explores the compelling belief that Christendom would spread to every corner of the earth before the end of time. During the High Middle Ages—an era of crusade, mission, and European expansion—the Western followers of Rome imagined the future conversion of Jews, Muslims, pagans, and Eastern Christians into one fold of God’s people, assembled under the authority of the Roman Church. Starting with the eleventh-century papal reform, Whalen shows how theological readings of history, prophecies, and apocalyptic scenarios enabled medieval churchmen to project the authority of Rome over the world. Looking to Byzantium, the Islamic world, and beyond, Western Christians claimed their special place in the divine plan for salvation, whether they were battling for Jerusalem or preaching to unbelievers. For those who knew how to read the signs, history pointed toward the triumph and spread of Roman Christianity. Yet this dream of Christendom raised troublesome questions about the problem of sin within the body of the faithful. By the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, radical apocalyptic thinkers numbered among the papacy’s most outspoken critics, who associated present-day ecclesiastical institutions with the evil of Antichrist—a subversive reading of the future. For such critics, the conversion of the world would happen only after the purgation of the Roman Church and a time of suffering for the true followers of God. This engaging and beautifully written book offers an important window onto Western religious views in the past that continue to haunt modern times.
The Play of Antichrist. Translated, with an Introduction by John Wright. [With an Appendix Containing a Translation of Adso's Essay on Antichrist.].
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Author: John Henry WRIGHT (Professor of Classics and Mediaeval Studies.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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