Author: Renate AmstutzPublisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888441409
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Ludus de Decem Virginibus
Author: Renate AmstutzPublisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888441409
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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The St Gall Passion Play
Author: Peter MacArdlePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401205442
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The early-fourteenth-century St Gall Passion Play comes from the Central Rhineland. Unfortunately its music (over one hundred Latin and German chants) is given in the manuscript only as brief incipits, without any musical notation. This interdisciplinary study reconstructs the musical stratum of the play. It is the first full-scale musical reconstruction of a large German Passion play in recent times, using the latest available scholarly data in drama, liturgy and music. It draws conclusions about performance practice and forces, and offers a sound basis for an authentic performance of the play. The study applies musical and liturgical data to the problem of localizing the play (the first time this has been systematically attempted), and assesses how applicable this might be to other plays. It presents a detailed study of the distinctive medieval liturgical uses of three German dioceses, Mainz, Speyer and Worms. The comparative approach suggests how the music of other plays might be reconstructed and understood, and shows that a better understanding of the music of medieval drama has much to teach us about other aspects of the genre. The book should be of interest to literary scholars, theatre historians, musicologists, liturgical scholars, and those involved in the performance of early drama.
Constructing Virtue and Vice
Author: Olga V. TrokhimenkoPublisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN: 3847101196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The study examines textual representations of women's laughter and smiling and their imagined connection to female virtue in a wide variety of discourses and contexts of the German Middle Ages, including medieval epic, ecclesiastical texts, conduct literature, lyric, and sculpture. By engaging with the competing, and at times contradictory, views of female laughter, it reaffirms a disputatious nature of medieval culture, in which multiple views of femininity, sexuality, and virtue stood in a conflicting, yet productive, dialogue with one another. The society that emerges when one looks at medieval German texts is always ambivalent: it thrives on and enjoys talking about sensuality and eroticism, while being constrained by the conventions of polite behavior and the fear of sin; it relies on the ritual use of laughter, while marking it as a sign of lust and perdition. Women's laughter thus offers an important way into understanding medieval views of gender because it combines physicality with shifting and conflicting cultural norms.
The Chances of Death, and Other Studies in Evolution: Woman as witch. Ashiepattle. Kindred group-marriage. The German passion-play. Appendix
Author: Karl PearsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The Chances of Death and Other Studies in Evolution
Author: Karl PearsonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Liturgical Drama and the Reimagining of Medieval Theater
Author: Michael NortonPublisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580442633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The expression "liturgical drama" was formulated in 1834 as a metaphor and hardened into formal category only later in the nineteenth century. Prior to this invention, the medieval rites and representations that would forge the category were understood as distinct and unrelated classes: as liturgical rites no longer celebrated or as theatrical works of dubious quality. This ground-breaking work examines "liturgical drama" according to the contexts of their presentations within the manuscripts and books that preserve them.
Periods of European Literature
Author: The Transition Period
Author: George Gregory SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Periods of European Literature: The transition period
Author: George Gregory SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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References for Students of Miracle Plays and Mysteries
Author: Albert Stanburrough CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description