Theater and the sacred in the Middle Ages / / Andrzej Dąbrówka ; translated by Jan Burzyński and Mikołaj Golubiewski.
The book presents a theory of relationships 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 o...
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| Superior document: | Interdisciplinary studies in performance ; 20 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin : : Peter Lang,, [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interdisciplinary studies in performance ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (574 pages). |
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| Summary: | The book presents a theory of relationships 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. |
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| ISBN: | 3631708580 3653047978 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Andrzej Dąbrówka ; translated by Jan Burzyński and Mikołaj Golubiewski. |