This important new study of the English mystery plays has a twofold purpose. It is concerned to investigate the antecedents of the four extant cycles and to demonstrate the dramatic value of the plays themselves The opening and concluding chapters place the plays in their histor…
"Based in records and iconography, this book surveys medieval festival playing in Britain more comprehensively than any other work to date. The study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles, from Kilkenny to Great Yarmouth, from Scotland to Cornwall. It offe…
The urgent debate about torture in public discourse of the twenty-first century thrusts pain into the foreground while research in neuroscience is transforming our understanding of this fundamental human experience. In late-medieval France, a country devastated by the Black Deat…
This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering and torture in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Spectacle and public performance in the lateMiddle Ages and the Renaissance
by MARCO Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Knoxville, Stillman, Eobert E., Medieval and Renaissance Curriculum and Outreach Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
fromStudies in medieval and reformation traditions
While the late Anglo-Saxons rarely recorded saints' posthumous miracles, a shift occurred as monastic writers of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries started to preserve hundreds of the stories they had heard of healings, acts of vengeance, resurrections, recoveries, and othe…
While the late Anglo-Saxons rarely recorded saints' posthumous miracles, a shift occurred as monastic writers of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries started to preserve hundreds of the stories they had heard of healings, acts of vengeance, resurrections, recoveries, and othe…
