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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2005.
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Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
86. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 141759117X 9781417591176 9789401202077 9401202079 |