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Croxton Play of the Sacrament

Engelsk Paperback

Croxton Play of the Sacrament

Engelsk Paperback
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Despite its bloody and polemical content—or perhaps because of it—the late fifteenth-century Croxton Play of the Sacrament continues to fascinate and shock. Its central scene dramatizes physical abuse of the Host, the bread believed to become Christ’s body when consecrated during Mass, by non-Christians mocking the doctrine of transubstantiation. However, because this Middle English play depicts these torturers as Syrian Jews who worship the Muslim prophet Muhammad, and because it was composed two centuries after England expelled its Jewish inhabitants in 1290, these figures likely served to reinforce Christian orthodoxy amid anxieties over transubstantiation rather than respond to contemporary Jewish practices. The Host’s miraculous responses to this abuse, including healing a dismembered hand and causing an oven to explode in the shape of the Christ Child, infuse the play with spectacle and reflect its East Anglian theatrical preferences for human, visible, and embodied forms of Christian devotion.

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Despite its bloody and polemical content—or perhaps because of it—the late fifteenth-century Croxton Play of the Sacrament continues to fascinate and shock. Its central scene dramatizes physical abuse of the Host, the bread believed to become Christ’s body when consecrated during Mass, by non-Christians mocking the doctrine of transubstantiation. However, because this Middle English play depicts these torturers as Syrian Jews who worship the Muslim prophet Muhammad, and because it was composed two centuries after England expelled its Jewish inhabitants in 1290, these figures likely served to reinforce Christian orthodoxy amid anxieties over transubstantiation rather than respond to contemporary Jewish practices. The Host’s miraculous responses to this abuse, including healing a dismembered hand and causing an oven to explode in the shape of the Christ Child, infuse the play with spectacle and reflect its East Anglian theatrical preferences for human, visible, and embodied forms of Christian devotion.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 138
ISBN-13: 9781580441810
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1580441815
Kategori: Middelalderens engelsk
Udg. Dato: 1 jan 2013
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 264mm
Højde: 180mm
Forlag: Medieval Institute Publications
Oplagsdato: 1 jan 2013
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Kategori Middelalderens engelsk

ISBN-13 9781580441810

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 138

Udgave

Længde 14mm

Bredde 264mm

Højde 180mm

Udg. Dato 1 jan 2013

Oplagsdato 1 jan 2013

Forlag Medieval Institute Publications