The N-Town Plays and Medieval Picture Cycles (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series ; 2)

Collins, Patrick J.

Western Michigan Univ Medieval

Despite the paramount importance of confraternities (especially to males) in medieval European society, scholars have tended to neglect not only the social role they played but also the influence they had on the art, drama, music, and thinking of the society in which they not only existed but thrived. This collection of essays serves to illuminate this oft-ignored facet of medieval society, and each essay carefully examines some element of the influence of confraternities on society and its products.

Crossing the Boundaries: Christian Piety and the Arts in Italian Medieval Renaissance Confraternities (Early Drama, Art and Music Monograph No 15)

History

Europe

The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange Between East and West During the Period of the Crusades (Studies in Medieval Culture) (English, French and Italian Edition)

Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

University of Michigan Medieval and Renaissance Collegium

Western Michigan University Medieval Institute

Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange Between East and West During the Period of the Crusades (Paper) (English, French and Italian Edition)

This illustrated volume intelligently provides a much-needed introduction to what may have been the most popular variety of drama in the Middle Ages: the saint play. A comprehensive and collaborative survey is provided with an emphasis on interdisciplinary study rather than only literary analysis. While the saint play in England is the connecting theme of the volume, the papers explore other topics necessary to fully understand the culture of the saint play, such as the genre as manifest on the continent, including plays in French, Italian, and German.

Saint Play in Medieval Europe (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series, 8)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The Easter Sepulchre is the English form of a monument known throughout Western Europe in the Middle Ages as the sepulchrum domini, the tomb of the Lord, the monument associated specifically with the commemorative Easter rites. The Easter Sepulchre stood in the place of Christ's tomb in Jerusalem, recreated in hundreds of churches in England for Holy Week and Easter each year. This volume discusses this important monument that stands at the intersection of several important aspects of medieval culture: its study impinges upon the fields of drama, liturgy, art history, and social history. The study is organized so as to trace individual threads-the representations of the Holy Sepulchre in art, the development of the commemorative Easter rites, and the form and iconography of the Easter Sepulchre-before describing the pattern that results when they are interwoven. This volume is of critical interest to those studying this monument, and sheds light on the intersections of medieval English developments in art, liturgy, drama, and popular religion.

The Easter Sepulchre in England (Early Drama, Art, and Music Reference Series, 5)

Arts & Photography

Sheingorn, Pamela

Sculpture

Religion, Culture, and Society in the Early Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan (Studies in Medieval Culture)

Essays in this volume explore wide-ranging topics: Constantinople, Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and Pilgrimages to the works or lives of Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours, John Damascene, and Anselm of Havelberg. Like the scholarship of the man who inspired the essays (Richard Sullivan) the essays are broad and incisive.

Noble, Thomas F. X.

World

<p><p>This volume seeks--through the work of a number of experts in various fields--to explore monastic life as embodied by Carthusian monks and nuns. Medieval and Early Modern Carthusians are omnipresent in a number of topics in medieval studies--literature, history, art, religious life, and the development of intellectual and theological thought. Moreover, these religious men and women were significant contributors to Medieval and Early Modern culture, society, and spirituality. Despite Carthusians' influence and popularity during this time, they have often escaped scholarly attention. As a multi-pronged and interdisciplinary study, this volume offers a comprehensive, yet nuanced re-examination of the Carthusian way of life: one that often challenges long-standing assumptions about the Carthusians and their place within Western Christianity and civilization. The breadth and depth of this volume will appeal not only to the seasoned scholar and graduate students, but also to newcomers to the field.</p></p>

Carthusian Monasticism: History, Life, World, Texts (Monastic Life and Venerated Spaces)

Oath-taking and Oath-breaking in Early Medieval England and Iceland (The Northern Medieval World)

Laing, Gregory L.

The Liturgy of the Medieval Church

Thomas J. Heffernan

Religion & Spirituality

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