2012 Puddly Awards
 
 
Follow us on TwitterFollow us on FacebookFollow us on TumblrSubscribe to RSS


Recently Viewed clear list


Original Essays | February 8, 2012

Kent Hartman: IMG A Raider by Any Other Name



Perhaps you are aware of the fact that there is an oddly popular trivia game floating around that a group of clever (and likely bored) college... Continue »
  1. $18.19 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

spacer
Free Shipping!

This item may be
out of stock.

Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.
Check for Availability
Add to Wishlist

This title in other editions

The Origin of Medieval Drama

The Origin of Medieval Drama Cover

 

Synopses & Reviews

Book News Annotation:

For all the scholarly literature on Medieval drama, there has yet been no social analysis of its origin, says Goldstein. Now retired in Germany after a long peripatetic academic career, he begins the task. Along the way, he proposes a new theory, which he confesses cannot be proven however much supporting evidence is presented. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

The liturgical drama arose in a period of rapidly integrating feudalism. Christians experienced the contradictions between the Church that offered salvation in the Eucharist and the Church that through its increasingly large holdings of property in land exploited large numbers of peasants. The resulting diminution of faith led the clergy to attempt to revitalize it by creating new theology, new music, new prayers, tropes, new rituals, and the drama. Though the content of the play is theologically sound, the little play carried within itself the social contradiction of communalism and property that it hoped to overcome. The method of analysis here is Marxist, for it understands the formation of concepts in their historical concreteness. The study concludes that the drama does not emerge out of the Mass as an actualized potential, for the Mass is communalistic and cannot legitimate property without destroying itself. Rather, the drama develops out of the cultural and religious consequences of the new form of property in feudalism.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780838640043
Publisher:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Location:
Madison, N.J.
Author:
Goldstein, Leonard
Subject:
History
Subject:
Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Subject:
Christianity and literature
Subject:
Liturgical drama
Subject:
Latin drama, Medieval and modern.
Subject:
Christian drama, Latin
Subject:
Christian drama, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Subject:
Christianity and literature - Europe -
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
F/27
Publication Date:
August 2004
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
p. cm.
The Origin of Medieval Drama
0 stars - 0 reviews
$ In Stock
Product details p. cm. pages Fairleigh Dickinson University Press - English 9780838640043 Reviews:
"Synopsis" by , The liturgical drama arose in a period of rapidly integrating feudalism. Christians experienced the contradictions between the Church that offered salvation in the Eucharist and the Church that through its increasingly large holdings of property in land exploited large numbers of peasants. The resulting diminution of faith led the clergy to attempt to revitalize it by creating new theology, new music, new prayers, tropes, new rituals, and the drama. Though the content of the play is theologically sound, the little play carried within itself the social contradiction of communalism and property that it hoped to overcome. The method of analysis here is Marxist, for it understands the formation of concepts in their historical concreteness. The study concludes that the drama does not emerge out of the Mass as an actualized potential, for the Mass is communalistic and cannot legitimate property without destroying itself. Rather, the drama develops out of the cultural and religious consequences of the new form of property in feudalism.
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...


Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.