Thesis
Dramatic ritual and preaching in late Anglo-Saxon England
- Abstract:
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My thesis involves an examination of the dramatic liturgical ritual of the late Anglo-Saxon period and its relationship to other aspects of Christian worship, especially vernacular preaching. One particular ritual, the Visitatio Sepulchri, has received a tremendous amount of attention by critics of early Western drama, who see in it an emergence of the representational mode of drama that characterizes later medieval drama. Because the rest of the Anglo-Saxon liturgy is less 'represen...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2000
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602330271
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
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- Local pid:
- td:602330271
- Deposit date:
- 2012-05-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Bedingfield, Marvin Bradford
- Copyright date:
- 2000
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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