{"product_id":"performances-of-the-sacred-in-late-medieval-and-early-modern-england-9789042018051","title":"Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommunities 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 and manage versions of the sacred. But since their performances inhabit social space, this often functions as a theatrical arena which is also used to stage modes of dissent, difference, sacrifice and sacrilege. In this way, all aspects of social life – the family, the nation, the idea of kingship, gender identities, courtly ideals, love making or smoking – may become sacralized and buttress claims for power by recourse to a repertoire of religious symbolic forms. Through critical readings of central texts and authors – such as Sir Gawain, Foxe, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, or Vaughan – as well as less canonical examples – the Croxton play, Buchanan, Lanyer, Wroth, or the tobacco pamphlets – the twelve contributions all engage with the crucial question how, and to what end, performances of the sacred affect, or effect, cultural transformation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTobias DÖRING: Introduction  Paul STROHM: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Commemoration and Repetition in Late Medieval Culture  Andrew James JOHNSTON: The Secret of the Sacred: Confession and the Self in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Thomas HEALY: Performing the Self: Reformation History and the English Renaissance Lyric Andreas HÖFELE: Stages of Martyrdom: John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments  Andrew HADFIELD: James VI and I, George Buchanan and the Divine Right of Kings Verena OLEJNICZAK LOBSIEN: “Transformed in show, but more transformed in mind”: Sidney’s Old Arcadia and the Performance of Perfection  Susanne RUPP: Performing Heaven: The State of Grace in Seventeenth-Century Protestant Theology Richard WILSON: Dyed in Mummy: Othello and the Mulberries  Ina SCHABERT: The Lady’s Supper: Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum as a Female Celebration of the Eucharist  Irmgard MAASSEN: Canonized by Love? Religious Rhetoric and Gender-Fashioning in the Sonnet  Sabine SCHÜLTING: Tobacco—Sacred and Profane  Notes on Contributors","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210896761175,"sku":"9789042018051","price":64.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/performances-of-the-sacred-in-late-medieval-and-early-modern-england-9789042018051","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}