Suchergebnisse für ‘Cornelia Herberichs’ 2 Artikel

Many medieval religious plays survive in manuscripts without reference to theatrical performance; rather, they are presented as literary texts in their own right. A series of case studies focusing on Passion and Christmas plays in their specific manuscript traditions illuminates the meaning of these under-researched works for the history of literature, culture, and piety. The title 'geistliche Lesespiele' ('Religious Plays for Reading') coins a term that permits the systematic and methodological study of this distinctive type of transmission of the texts of plays, found not only in the German-speaking world, but throughout Europe.

The publication presents the results of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Colloquium 2021 (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) "Paradigms and Perspectives of Comparative Medieval Studies". The contributions explore the theoretical and methodological premises of historically orientated comparative research that focuses on the specific cultural conditions of the pre-modern period. The focus is on two central paradigms in current medievalist discourse: the materiality and mediality of medieval manuscript culture on the one hand and the central role of the Latin language as a supra-regional lingua franca and motor for exchange and innovation across linguistic and cultural borders on the other.