A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages (The Cultural Histories) edited by Carol Symes, Jody Enders, Theresa Coletti, John T. Sebastian
English | November 18, 2021 | ISBN: 1474287905 | True EPUB/PDF | 240 pages | 5.98/2.4 MB
English | November 18, 2021 | ISBN: 1474287905 | True EPUB/PDF | 240 pages | 5.98/2.4 MB
For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world's most enduring art forms.
Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.