The theater of devotion : East Anglian drama and society in the late Middle Ages / Gail McMurray Gibson
1989, 1st editioin. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426129
ISBN: 0226291014
Physical description; xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index. Contents; Fifteenth-century culture and the incarnational aesthetic -- East Anglian religious culture in the Late Middle Ages -- St. Margery: The book of Margery Kempe -- In search of East Anglian devotional theater: Three lives -- Monastic theater -- Mary's Dower: East Anglian drama and the cult of the virgin. Subjects; To 1500. Mysteries and miracle-plays, English. England East Anglia History and criticism. Christian drama, English (Middle) England East Anglia History and criticism. Theater England East Anglia History Medieval, 500-1500. Literature and society England East Anglia History To 1500. Devotional literature, English History and criticism. English drama To 1500 History and criticism.
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