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1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 86
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 86.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The Croxton Play of the sacrament : commemoration and repetition in late medieval culture / Paul Strohm -- The secret of the sacred : confession and the self in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Andrew James Johnston -- Performing the self : reformation history and the English Renaissance lyric / Thomas Healy -- Stages of martyrdom : John Foxe's Actes and monuments / Andreas Höfele -- James VI and I, George Buchanan, and the divine right of kings / Andrew Hadfield -- "Transformed in show, but more transformed in mind" : Sidney's Old Arcadia and the performance of perfection / Verena Olejniczak Lobsien -- Performing heaven : the state of grace in seventeenth-century Protestant theology / Susanne Rupp -- Dyed in mummy : Othello and the mulberries / Richard Wilson -- The lady's supper : Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum as a female celebration of the Eucharist / Ina Schabert -- Canonized by love? : religious rhetoric and gender-fashioning in the sonnet / Irmgard Maassen -- Tobacco : sacred and profane / Sabine Schülting. |
| Summary |
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 a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
England -- Religion.
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England. |
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Religion. |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Religion in literature.
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Religion in literature. |
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Church history.
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Church history. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Rupp, Susanne, 1967-
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Döring, Tobias.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Performances of the sacred in late medieval and early modern England. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005 9042018054 (OCoLC)59009344 |
| ISBN |
141759117X (electronic book) |
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9781417591176 (electronic book) |
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9789401202077 |
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9401202079 |
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9789042018051 |
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9042018054 |
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