TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rupp,Susanne
AU  - Döring,Tobias
TI  - Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
T2  - Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
SN  - 9789401202077
AV  - BL48 
U1  - 820.9382 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Holy, The
KW  - Sacred space
KW  - England
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Tobias DÖRING: Introduction -- Paul STROHM: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Commemoration and Repetition in Late Medieval Culture -- Andrew James JOHNSTON: The Secret of the Sacred: Confession and the Self in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Thomas HEALY: Performing the Self: Reformation History and the English Renaissance Lyric -- Andreas HÖFELE: Stages of Martyrdom: John Foxe's Actes and Monuments -- Andrew HADFIELD: James VI and I, George Buchanan and the Divine Right of Kings -- Verena OLEJNICZAK LOBSIEN: "Transformed in show, but more transformed in mind": Sidney's Old Arcadia and the Performance of Perfection -- Susanne RUPP: Performing Heaven: The State of Grace in Seventeenth-Century Protestant Theology -- Richard WILSON: Dyed in Mummy: Othello and the Mulberries -- Ina SCHABERT: The Lady's Supper: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum as a Female Celebration of the Eucharist -- Irmgard MAASSEN: Canonized by Love? Religious Rhetoric and Gender-Fashioning in the Sonnet -- Sabine SCHÜLTING: Tobacco-Sacred and Profane -- Notes on Contributors
N2  - Communities have often shaped themselves around cultural spaces set apart and declared sacred. For this purpose, churches, priests or scholars no less than writers frequently participate in giving sacred figures a local habitation and, sometimes, voice or name. But whatever sites, rites, images or narratives have thus been constructed, they also raise some complex questions: how can the sacred be presented and yet guarded, claimed yet concealed, staged in public and at the same time kept exclusive? Such questions are pursued here in a variety of English texts historically employed to manifest and manage versions of the sacred. But since their performances inhabit social space, this often functions as a theatrical arena which is also used to stage modes of dissent, difference, sacrifice and sacrilege. In this way, all aspects of social life - the family, the nation, the idea of kingship, gender identities, courtly ideals, love making or smoking - may become sacralized and buttress claims for power by recourse to a repertoire of religious symbolic forms. Through critical readings of central texts and authors - such as Sir Gawain, Foxe, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, or Vaughan - as well as less canonical examples - the Croxton play, Buchanan, Lanyer, Wroth, or the tobacco pamphlets - the twelve contributions all engage with the crucial question how, and to what end, performances of the sacred affect, or effect, cultural transformation
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401202077
ER  -