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What is medieval religious drama, and what function does it serve in negotiating between the domains of theology and popular life? This book aims to answer these questions by studying three sets of these dramas: tenth-century Easter plays, twelfth-century Adam plays, and fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Passion plays. However, the author s intent is not to present a genre history. Instead, he seeks to mediate between the historical development of the plays and a systematic unfolding of the archetypal structure within which the plays grasp salvation history and act it out. His theoretical approach is grounded in the work of Niklas Luhmann, which strongly emphasizes the priority of social functions over institutional structures.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Ambivalences of Medieval Religious Drama
• Author: Rainer Warning
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780804737913
• ISBN: 0804737916
• ID: 04717068
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 590 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. May 2001

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