Format:
1 Online-Ressource
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781474208222
Series Statement:
Cultural histories series 2
Content:
Introduction -- 1. Forms and Media -- 2. Sites of Performance and Circulation -- 3. Communities of Production and Consumption -- 4. Philosophy and Social Theory -- 5. Religion, Ritual and Myth -- 6. Politics of City and Nation -- 7. Society and Family -- 8. Gender and Sexuality.
Content:
Historically, scholars have largely endorsed the truism that there was no such thing as medieval tragedy, a genre long believed to have died between 500 and 1500 as it awaited its literal Renaissance rebirth. Now, for the first time, a distinguished group of authors comes forward to recalibrate our thinking by rewriting the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world's most enduring art forms. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality. As a whole, the volume provides a panoramic view rich in spatial, temporal, formal, and contextual concerns
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350154940
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350154957
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474287906
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474288149
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781474208222
