Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville

Performing Empire
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80270-085-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Early Social Performance

From the fall of Islamic Išbiliya in 1248 to the conquest of the New World, Seville was a nexus of economic and religious power where interconfessional living among Christians, Jews, and Muslims was negotiated on public stages. From out of seemingly irreconcilable ideologies of faith, hybrid performance culture emerged in spectacles of miraculous transformation, disciplinary processionals, and representations of religious identity.

Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville reinvigorates the study of medieval Iberian theatre by revealing the ways in which public expressions of devotion, penance, and power fostered cultural reciprocity, rehearsed religious difference, and ultimately helped establish Seville as the imperial centre of Christian Spain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swift, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes and Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Theatres of Absence

Chapter One: Theatrical Acculturation and the Andalusi Colony

Chapter Two: Penance, Conversion, and Affective Convivencia

Chapter Three: Strange Infidels in the Imperial Metropole

Conclusion: Walking Ghosts

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Swift, Christopher
Christopher Swift is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the City University of New York, New York City College of Technology. He researches and teaches performance architecture, puppetry, and medieval theatre.