Performances of the sacred in late medieval and early modern England /:

Communities 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 n...

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Weitere Verfasser: Rupp, Susanne, 1967-, Döring, Tobias
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Schriftenreihe:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 86.
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Zusammenfassung:Communities 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 a.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:141759117X
9781417591176
9789401202077
9401202079

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