Performances of the sacred in late medieval and early modern England /
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 n...
| Други автори: | Rupp, Susanne, 1967-, Doring, Tobias. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2005.
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| Серия: |
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
86. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=130674 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Performances of the sacred in late medieval and early modern England. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
141759117X 9781417591176 9789401202077 9401202079 |