Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

Performance and transformation : new approaches to late medieval spirituality / edited by Mary A. Suydam and Joanna E. Ziegler.

Contributor(s): Suydam, Mary A, 1951- | Ziegler, Joanna E
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xxi, 361 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 031221281XSubject(s): Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 | Spirituality -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 | Feminist theology | Theater -- Religious aspects -- ChristianityDDC classification: 248.2/2/0902 LOC classification: BV5083 | .P47 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Background: an introduction to performance studies / Mary Suydam -- How to do things with mystical language: Marguerite d'Oingt's performative writing / Catherine Müller -- "More than I fynd written": dialogue and power in the English translation of The mirror of simple souls / Laurie A. Finke -- Preaching and prophesying: the public proclamation of Birgitta of Sweden's revelations / Claire L. Sahlin -- A performance artist and her performance text: Margery Kempe on tour / Nanda Hopenwasser -- Thomas of Cantimpré: performative reading and pastoral care / Robert Sweetman --Beguine textuality: sacred performances / Mary Suydam -- Rocking the cradle: Margaretha Ebner (Be)holds the divine / Rosemary Drage Hale -- Ritual and performance in Richard Rolle's Passion meditation B / William F. Hodapp -- Spanish visionary women and the paradox of performance / Mary E. Giles -- Elisabeth of Spalbeeks' Trance dance of faith: a performance theory interpretation from anthropological and art historical perspectives / Susan Rodgers and Joanna E. Ziegler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Background: an introduction to performance studies / Mary Suydam -- How to do things with mystical language: Marguerite d'Oingt's performative writing / Catherine Müller -- "More than I fynd written": dialogue and power in the English translation of The mirror of simple souls / Laurie A. Finke -- Preaching and prophesying: the public proclamation of Birgitta of Sweden's revelations / Claire L. Sahlin -- A performance artist and her performance text: Margery Kempe on tour / Nanda Hopenwasser -- Thomas of Cantimpré: performative reading and pastoral care / Robert Sweetman --Beguine textuality: sacred performances / Mary Suydam -- Rocking the cradle: Margaretha Ebner (Be)holds the divine / Rosemary Drage Hale -- Ritual and performance in Richard Rolle's Passion meditation B / William F. Hodapp -- Spanish visionary women and the paradox of performance / Mary E. Giles -- Elisabeth of Spalbeeks' Trance dance of faith: a performance theory interpretation from anthropological and art historical perspectives / Susan Rodgers and Joanna E. Ziegler.

Powered by Koha