Book/Printed Material Theater and the sacred in the Middle Ages

Title

• Theater and the sacred in the Middle Ages

Summary

• The book presents a theory of relationship between the forms of devotion and early drama genres. The historical background is the circumstances of the Church becoming independent of the Empire. A theological and philosophical aspect of the transformation of piety at the time was the specification of the ontological status of the sacred (spiritualization) and "shifting it to Heaven" (transcendentalization). In opposition to a theory of Western civilization as a process of increasing individual self-control, the author argues for the need to take into account purely religious conditions (the idea of recapitulation). This allows the author to develop a holistic aesthetics for the religiously inspired creativity in the period spanning the 11th-15th centuries and to propose a new typology of medieval drama. --From publisher's description.

Names

• Dąbrówka, Andrzej, author
• Burzyński, Jan, translator
• Golubiewski, Mikołaj, 1985- translator

Created / Published

• Berlin : Peter Lang, [2019]
• ©2019

Contents

• Part I. Literature and history -- A philological exercise -- Language and history : the cognitive turn -- Pious spectacle -- The sacred -- Forms of devotion -- Part II. Changes in the ontology of the sacred -- The ontology of the sacred -- The sources of the spiritualization process -- The material symbol and the linguistic sign -- The stages of spiritualization -- The transcendentalization of the sacred as a civilizational transformation -- Part III. The profane : the human estate -- Lower tiers of sacrality -- The new place for people in nature -- From the universalism of obedience to the pluralism of predictability -- Confraternities as media in the civilizing process -- Part IV. The aesthetics of recapitulation : to inscribe into the living hearts -- Theatrica -- Spectator, participant, co-author -- The incarnational aesthetics of the theatrical performance -- The aesthetics of articulation and factuality -- Knowledge of the miracle -- Recapitulation and creativity -- Part V. Spirituality and subjectivity in drama -- The forms of devotion and drama -- The mystery play -- The miracle play -- The morality play -- The recapitulatory drama -- The farce -- Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.

Headings

• -  Theater--Religious aspects--Christianity

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (574 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• PN2051

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020719005

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020719005

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020719005

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