Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51746-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Reihe: Studies in Religion and the Arts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bino, Carla M

Ricasoli, Corinna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.