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Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade
\"Analyzes how chroniclers of the First Crusade attempted to represent the enterprise as a \"holy war.\" Focuses on accounts of miracles, especially the intervention of saints in the battle of Antioch; explores how the chroniclers related the crusade to biblical events\"--Provided by publisher.
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Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade
In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries. Lapina analyzes the diversity of ways in which the chroniclers tried to justify the First Crusade as a \"holy war,\" where physical violence could be not just sinless, but salvific.
The book focuses on accounts of miracles reported to have happened in the course of the crusade, especially the miracle of the intervention of saints in the Battle of Antioch. Lapina shows why and how chroniclers used these miracles to provide historical precedent and to reconcile the messiness of history with the conviction that history was ordered by divine will. In doing so, she provides an important glimpse into the intellectual efforts of the chronicles and their authors, illuminating their perspectives toward the concepts of history, salvation, and the East. Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade demonstrates how these narratives sought to position the crusade as an event in the time line of sacred history. Lapina offers original insights into the effects of the crusade on the Western imaginary as well as how medieval authors thought about and represented history.
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Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama
The study of saints in medieval biblical drama has often been neglected in favour of the study of sinners ? the villains and the rogues. InSaints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama, Chester N. Scoville takes a different tack, examining the language and rhetoric of saintly characters in Middle English biblical plays. Scoville contends that the plays focus attention on the interaction between the divine realm and the human realm, that the saintly characters are key to seeing this interaction, and that the overall function of the plays is to instill in the audience a shared point of view defined both by doctrine and by experience.
By placing the rhetoric of the plays at the centre of his study, Scoville incorporates performative practices and historical contexts into the argument. Language, text, and persuasion are central in the rhetorical experience, as are non-verbal elements such as costume, movement, gesture, and scenery.Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Dramafully and assiduously explains how biblical drama functioned in the society that experienced it.
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Questions of Miracle
This collection of essays explores new avenues in the ongoing debate on miracles and sheds light on various theological and philosophical issues. Presented as a dialogue between Robert Larmer and other leading philosophers in the field, all sides of the issues are provocatively explored.
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From Page to Performance
This book is a collection of 22 essays by scholars in the field of Medieval Drama, mostly relating to performance both past and present. Alford wrote one essay in the book.
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Drama and Resistance
Claire Sponsler explores the intertwined histories of bodily subjectivity, commodity culture, and theatricality in late medieval England. In a fascinating consideration of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, she argues that many types of performances during this time represented cultural evasions of the imposition of disciplinary power. “Lucidly written and powerfully presented, the arguments of Drama and Resistance will have profound impact on future study of medieval performance and will undoubtedly be important as well to medievalists across many disciplines.” --Kathleen Ashley, University of Southern Maine
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The anxieties of a citizen class : the miracles of the true cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480
In The Anxieties of a Citizen Class Kiril Petkov reveals the uses of religious symbolism and miracle metaphors for the expression and alleviation of the social anxieties accompanying the formation of the cittadini originarii, the upper-middle class of fifteenth-century Venice.
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