Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England - ISBN:9042018054

Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Date: 21 April 2011, 12:47

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Communities have often shaped themselves around cultural spaces set apart and declared sacred. For this purpose, churches, priests or scholars no less than writers frequently participate in giving sacred figures a local habitation and, sometimes, voice or name. But whatever sites, rites, images or narratives have thus been constructed, they also raise some complex questions: how can the sacred be presented and yet guarded, claimed yet concealed, staged in public and at the same time kept exclusive?
Such questions are pursued here in a variety of English texts historically employed to manifest and manage versions of the sacred. But since their performances inhabit social space, this often functions as a theatrical arena which is also used to stage modes of dissent, difference, sacrifice and sacrilege. In this way, all aspects of social life the family, the nation, the idea of kingship, gender identities, courtly ideals, love making or smoking may become sacralized and buttress claims for power by recourse to a repertoire of religious symbolic forms.
Through critical readings of central texts and authors such as Sir Gawain, Foxe, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, or Vaughan as well as less canonical examples the Croxton play, Buchanan, Lanyer, Wroth, or the tobacco pamphlets the twelve contributions all engage with the crucial question how, and to what end, performances of the sacred affect, or effect, cultural transformation.

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