Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts

Author:   Carla M. Bino ,  Corinna Ricasoli
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   20
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9789004517462


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   05 October 2022
Format:   Hardback
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What does 'performance' mean in Christian culture? How is it connected to rituals, dramatic and visual arts, and the written word? Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts explores both the meaning of re-presentation and the role of performance within the Christian tradition between arts and drama. The essays in this book demonstrate that the idea of performance was central to Christian theology and that—from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern era—it became a device through which people saw, prayed, preached, wrote, imagined, officiated rites, celebrated cults, and practiced devotions. Seen that performance is a habitus within Christianity, performing the sacred does not just mean representing it, but rather enacting it in a tangible, visible and involved way.

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Author:   Carla M. Bino ,  Corinna Ricasoli
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   20
Weight:   0.551kg
ISBN:  

9789004517462


ISBN 10:   9004517464
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   05 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface List of Illustrations Notes on Contibutors Introduction  Carla M. Bino and Corinna Ricasoli 1 The Drama of Christian Images: Art, Liturgy, Sacred Theatre  Timothy Verdon 2 A ‘Dramatic Turn’: The Revolution of Christian Representation  Carla M. Bino 3 No Drama Please, We’re Greek: Sacred Plays from a Greek Orthodox Perspective  Andrew Walker White 4 Enacting Sacred Narrative: Biblical, Liturgical, and Sacramental Practices in the Latin West  Nils Holger Petersen 5 Mary in the Scriptures as Container and Way: Henry Adams and the Virgin of Chartres  Rachel Fulton Brown 6 The Power of Images of Passion: Animated Sculptures of the Crucified Christ and the Problem of Visualizing Suffering in Medieval Art  Kamil Kopania 7 Women as Performers of the Bible: Female Preaching in Premodern Europe  Carolyn Muessig 8 Dramatic Action and the Participatory Spectator at the Sacro Monte di Varallo: Frozen Theatre or Immersive Installation?  Allie Terry-Fritsch 9 The Paradox of the Saint Actress: Church and Commedia Dell’arte during the Counter-Reformation  Fabrizio Fiaschini 10 Performing Glory: The Misteri or Festa D’elx on Contemporary Stages  Francesc Massip 11 Performing the Bible: Christian Drama and the Arts  Jean-Claude Schmitt Copyright Index

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Carla M. Bino, Ph.D. (2001), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, is Associate Professor of History of Theatre. She has published on the dramatic culture of the Christian Middle Ages, including Il dramma e l’immagine. Teorie cristiane della rappresentazione (Le Lettere, 2015). Corinna Ricasoli, Ph.D. (2014), is an art historian and museum curator with an international exhibition record, including The Living Dead: Ecclesiastes through Art (Ferdinand Schöning, 2018). She boasts collaborations with prominent international museums and is widely published in a variety of peer-reviewed forms. Contributors are Carla M. Bino, Rachel Fulton Brown, Fabrizio Fiaschini, Kamil Kopania, Francesc Massip, Carolyn Muessig, Nils Holger Petersen, Jean–Claude Schmitt, Allie Terry-Fritsch, Timothy Verdon, Andrew Walker White.

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