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Author:
Lerud, Theodore Karl, 1951-
Title:
Memory, images, and the English Corpus Christi drama / Theodore K. Lerud.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
xvi, 181 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Mysteries and miracle-plays, English--History and criticism.
Christian drama, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
Bible plays, English--History and criticism.
Memory in literature
Visual perception in literature
Imagery (Psychology) in literature
Christian art and symbolism in literature
Art and literature--England--History--To 1500.
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery--England.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-176) and index.
Contents:
Medieval culture and the memory arts -- The position of theater in the thought of Augustine of Hippo -- Medieval Aristotelianism and the poetics of the English Corpus Christi drama -- Thomas Aquinas and the rehabilitation of the image: a context for the development of medieval drama -- Drama as quick image: the fifteenth-century context -- Corpus Christi drama and the places of memory: liturgical precedents and illuminated manuscript analogues -- Plays, places, and the dramatic records -- A bird in the hand: shifting politics and processions at Chester -- Reinventing the cycle: the banns, the text, and the pentecostal design -- The missing link: spaces, places, and the Chester Whitsun plays.
Series:
New Middle Ages
ISBN:
9780230603219 (alk. paper)
0230603211 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)154703608
LCCN:
2008003368
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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