Theater and the sacred in the Middle Ages / / Andrzej Dąbrówka ; translated by Jan Burzyński and Mikołaj Golubiewski.

• Superior document: Interdisciplinary studies in performance ; 20
• VerfasserIn: Dąbrówka, Andrzej,
• TeilnehmendeR: Burzyński, Jan,; Golubiewski, Mikołaj, 1985-
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Peter Lang,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Interdisciplinary studies in performance ; 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (574 pages).

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...

Table of 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.