Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville : : Performing Empire / / Christopher Swift.

• VerfasserIn: Swift, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2023]; 2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Early Social Performance
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)

From the fall of Islamic Išbīliya in 1248 to the conquest of the New World, Seville was a nexus of economic and religious power where interconfessional living among Christians, Jews, and Muslims was negotiated on public stages. From out of seemingly irreconcilable ideologies of faith, hybrid performance culture emerged in spectacles of miraculous transformation, disciplinary processionals, and representations of religious identity. Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville reinvigorates the study of medieval Iberian theatre by revealing the ways in which public expressions of devotion, penance, and power fostered cultural reciprocity, rehearsed religious difference, and ultimately helped establish Seville as the imperial centre of Christian Spain.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Theatres of Absence -- Chapter 1. The Cantigas de Santa Maria: Theatrical Acculturation of the Andalusi Colony -- Chapter 2. Penance, Conversion, and Affective Convivencia -- Chapter 3. Strange Infidels in the Imperial Metropole -- Conclusion. Walking Ghosts -- Bibliography -- Index