Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Stillman
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Late Middle Ages

The York Corpus Christi Play: Selected Pageants, ed. Christina M. Fitzgerald. Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2018, pp. 405, 11 b/w ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 489-490
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Medieval Drama ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Text Selection ◽  
Religious Plays ◽  
Selection Of

We can only be thankful for any efforts to make major or minor medieval texts available to our students today because the knowledge of medieval Latin or vernacular languages is disappearing at an alarming rate. Christina M. Fitzgerald here presents in a very reader-friendly version a selection of pageants in The York Corpus Christi Play from the late fourteenth century (earliest, 1376), consisting of 47 plays in total, 27 of which are reproduced here, and couples those with a selection of contemporary texts to illustrate better the global interest in religious topics for public performance at that time. This is a most important literary document mirroring popular culture during the late Middle Ages, and so we cannot overestimate the <?page nr="490"?>pedagogical value of this new text selection. After all, The York Corpus Christi Play consists of over 300 speaking parts and more than 14,000 lines, which required a large involvement of the urban population to carry out the performance, very similar to the continental religious plays during the entire late Middle Ages and beyond.

The church in the West Highlands in the late middle ages

2003 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
A. D. M. Barrell
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Church

Forma Dat Esse

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-446
Author(s):  
Sylvain Roudaut
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Progressive Decline ◽  
De Trinitate ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract This paper offers an overview of the history of the axiom forma dat esse, which was commonly quoted during the Middle Ages to describe formal causality. The first part of the paper studies the origin of this principle, and recalls how the ambiguity of Boethius’s first formulation of it in the De Trinitate was variously interpreted by the members of the School of Chartres. Then, the paper examines the various declensions of the axiom that existed in the late Middle Ages, and shows how its evolution significantly follows the progressive decline of the Aristotelian model of formal causality.

Medieval Combat in Colour: Hans Talhoffer’s Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat from 1467, ed. and introduced by Dierk Hagedorn. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire: Greenhill Books, 2018, 319 pp., ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 548-549
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Close Quarter ◽  
The Many

The late Middle Ages witnessed the creation of numerous fencing books, mostly in Germany, illustrating the many different techniques, weapons, styles, strategies, and the movements, as Patrick Leiske discussed only recently in his Höfisches Spiel und tödlicher Ernst (2018; see my review here in vol. 32). Some of the true masters and teachers of this sport and fighting technique were Johannes Liechtenauer, Peter von Danzig, Sigmund Ringeck, and Hans Talhoffer, whom Leiske also discusses in a separate chapter.

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