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Title:Genre & Ritual : The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals
Author:Nils Holger Petersen, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Jens Fleischer & Eyolf Østrem (eds)
ISBN:8763502410 : 9788763502412
Illustrations:20 b/w illus
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:336
Weight: .618 Kg.
Published:Museum Tusculanum Press - September 2005
List Price: 30 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:HISTORY OF ART/ART & DESIGN STYLES: Theatre; drama: 20th century music: serious & classical: Cultural studies: Christianity: EUROPE: c1000CE-c1500


The concepts of genre and ritual are central for the overall occupation with the relationship between the History of the Arts and the History of Christianity in Western Culture. The present volume was planned on the basis of the first annual international conferences at the Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, University of Copenhagen: a collection of 15 essays with a wide range of topics both in terms of chronology and subject matter written. The book is a special issue of the journal TRANSfiguration.

Ritual as Action and Symbolic Expression; Hobbyhorse Performances: A Ritual Attribute of Carnivalesque Traditions and its Literary Appropriation in Sottie Theatre; Desire for Viewing: A 'Deluge of Images' in the Middle Ages; 'The Passion Clock' -- A Lutheran 'Way of the Cross': Reflections on a Popular Motif in Early Eighteenth-Century Scandinavian Religious Imagery; Remembering Ritual Murder: The Anti-Semitic Blood Accusation Narrative in Medieval and Contemporary Cultural Memory; Ericus Olaui’s Chronica Regni Gothorum: A Discourse on Dominance; Rituals and Genres in a Twentieth-Century Operative Portrayal of a Medieval Saint; 'Useful if Treated with Caution': Carnevalisation in Don Quixote; The Phenomenon of Concert Applause: Interactions Between Institution, Ritual, and Musical Genre; The Aria, the Stylus Melismatius, and the Holy Communion; Weill and Brecht's Das Berliner Requiem: A Secular Work in a Sacred Tradition; 'Going Through All These Things Twice': The Ritual of a Bob Dylan Concert; Music Practices Around Bob Dylan, Medieval Rituals and Modernity; Index of Authors.