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.

scholarly journals La moda no es capricho. Mensajes y funciones del vestido en la Edad MediaFashion is not a whim. Messages and functions of clothing in the Middle Ages

2017 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Juan Vicente García Marsilla
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Consumption Level ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Privileged Communication ◽  
Positive Stimuli ◽  
The Middle Ages

Los siglos finales de la Edad Media vieron como nuevas modas en el vestir irrumpían en Europa con un ritmo cada vez más acelerado. Eran una de las manifestaciones de una sociedad más dinámica, que utilizaba la vestimenta como un código de comunicación privilegiado del estatus social y la pujanza económica y política. Sin duda, las cortes nobiliarias jugaron un importante papel en esa activación de la moda, pero el fenómeno alcanzó a buena parte de la población urbana y a las capas más acomodadas del campesinado, como lo demuestran las leyes suntuarias y la difusión del mercado de segunda mano. Hombres y mujeres rivalizaban por acceder a las novedades, que viajaban de un país a otro con cierta facilidad, sin que la indumentaria, no obstante, llegara a homogeneizarse del todo en el continente. De esta manera, el cuidado de la apariencia, y la constante adaptación a las novedades en el vestido, se convertirían ya entonces en acicates básicos para un nivel de consumo sostenido, que a la larga alentaría importantes mutaciones del sistema económico.PALABRAS CLAVE: Edad Media, moda, leyes suntuarias, consumo, gusto.ABSTRACTThe Late Middle Ages saw new fashions in clothing appearing in Europe with an increasingly frequent rhythm. These trends were one of the manifestations of a more dynamic society that used clothing as a privileged communication code of social status and economic and political importance. Noble courts no doubt played an important role in this activation of fashion, but the phenomenon reached a large part of the urban population and the more affluent layers of the peasantry, as evidenced by sumptuary laws and the spread of the second-hand market. Men and women competed for access to novelties, which travelled from one country to others quite easily, although clothing never became homogenous across the whole continent. Thus, the care of appearance, and the constant adaptation to new fashion trends, became two basic positive stimuli for a sustained consumption level, which, in the long run, promoted important changes in the economic system.KEY WORDS: Middle Ages, fashion, sumptuary laws, consumption, taste.

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.

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