Commercialism in the Fifteenth Century English Cycle Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commercialism in the Fifteenth Century English Cycle Plays write by Kenneth Arthur Howe. This book was released on 1979. Commercialism in the Fifteenth Century English Cycle Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Medieval English Drama
Medieval English Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval English Drama write by Sidney E. Berger. This book was released on 2019-07-05. Medieval English Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1990, Medieval English Drama is an exhaustive bibliography of scholarship on medieval English drama. Each item has been annotated in the bibliography with considerable care; these annotations are descriptive rather than critical and give a clear synopsis of the content of each reference, the texts with which it deals, and a brief indication of its critical position. The bibliography is divided into two sections; editions and collections of plays, and critical works. The bibliography is exhaustive rather than selective and provides English annotations for foreign language works, as well as a list of reviews for most books. The book covers liturgical and folk drama, other forms of entertainment, and related material useful to researchers in the field. The book provides an update of sources not listed in Carl J. Stratman's comprehensive Bibliography of Medieval Drama published in 1972.
The Chester Mystery Cycle
The Chester Mystery Cycle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chester Mystery Cycle write by Kevin J. Harty. This book was released on 2018-10-24. The Chester Mystery Cycle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1993. Part of a series on medieval casebooks, this volume six looks at the Chester Mystery Cycle Play manuscripts and comparisons of the York and Chester Cycle. Theologically a product of the Middle Ages, historically a product of the Renaissance, what we today call the Chester Mystery Cycle is a series of twenty-four plays dramatizing the events of salvation history from Creation until Doomsday. One of four surviving English mystery cycles, the Chester Cycle, which originally included a twenty-fifth play of the Assumption surpressed sometime in the mid-sixteenth century, was, until more modern times, last performed in 1575.
The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000-1500
The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000-1500 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000-1500 write by R. H. Britnell. This book was released on 1996. The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000-1500 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The commercialisation of English society offers a major new interpretation of social and economic change in England over five centuries. By 1500 English livelihoods depended more upon money and commercial transactions than ever before; the institutional framework of markets had been transformed, and urban development was more pronounced. These changes were not, however, caused by any unilinear development of population, output or money supply. This pioneering study examines both institutional and economic transformation, and the social changes that resulted, and stresses the limited importance of formal trading institutions for the development of local trade. Commercial transition is throughout analysed from a broader perspective that looks at the changing power relations within medieval society (which might loosely be described as feudal), and considers how these relations were affected by such commercial development.
Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 28
Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 28 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 28 write by Edelgard E. DuBruck. This book was released on 2003. Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 28 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The focus of the volume, in addition to standard features such as the bibliographical update on 15th-c. theater, is on late-medieval authors as literary critics. Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the Fifteenth-Century Symposium, Fifteenth-Century Studies has appeared annually since then. It publishes essays on all aspects of life in the fifteenth century, including literature, drama, history, philosophy, art, music, religion, science, and ritual and custom. The editors strive to do justice to the most contested medieval century, a period that has long been the stepchild of research. The fifteenthcentury defies consensus on fundamental issues: some scholars dispute, in fact, whether it belonged to the middle ages at all, arguing that it was a period of transition, a passage to modern times. At issue, therefore, is the verytenor of an age that stood under the influence of Gutenberg, Columbus, the Devotio Moderna, and Humanism. Along with the standard updating of bibliography on 15th-c. theater, this volume is devoted to research on late-medieval authors as literary critics. Thus, for the historian as well as the writer of fiction, the tenuous limits between truth and fantasy (and the role of doubt) are investigated. If there are several eyewitness accounts of an event, which one can be trusted? Medieval memorialists sometimes became advisors to princes and used a rhetoric of careful persuasion. Values such as chivalry, courtly love, and kingly self-representation come up for discussion here.Several essays ponder the structure of poetic forms and popular genres, and others consider more factual topics such as incunabula on medications, religious literature in the vernacular for everyday use, a student's notebook on magic, and late medieval merchants, money, and trade. Contributors: Edelgard DuBruck, Karen Casebier, Emma J. Cayley, Albrecht Classen, Michael G. Cornelius, Jean Dufornet, Catherine Emerson, Leonardas V. Gerulaitis, Kenneth Hodges, Sharon M. Loewald, Luca Pierdominici, Michel J. Raby, Elizabeth I. Wade. Edelgard E. DuBruck is professor emerita in the Modern Languages Department at Marygrove College in Detroit; Barbara I. Gusick is professor emerita of English at Troy University-Dothan, Dothan, Alabama.
