The essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Meredith's major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coinciding factors in the last quarter of the twentieth century brought together a group…
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"The essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Meredith's major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coinciding factors in the last quarter of the twentieth century brought together a grou…
Introduction -- Feeling torture -- Imagining death -- Enduring ecstasy -- Whipping up community -- Containing chaos -- Conclusion.
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…
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.
This volume offers a panoramic mosaic of the world-making role of theater and performance in medieval and early modern European societies.00This volume is a contribution to the cross-cultural study of theater and performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The studies ga…
This volume offers a panoramic mosaic of the world-making role of theater and performance in medieval and early modern European societies. This volume is a contribution to the cross-cultural study of theater and performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The studies gat…