The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals : Genre and Ritual

Østrem, Eyolf ; Bruun, Mette Birkedal ; Petersen, Nils Holger ; & Fleischer, Jens ; editors:

ISBN 10: 8763502410 / ISBN 13: 9788763502412

Published by Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, 2005

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23x15cm, 336 pp., This is a special issue of "Transfiguration: Nordic Journal for Christianity & the Arts" Contents: On genres : their construction, function, transformation, and transposition / Claus Clüver -- Ritual as action and symbolic expression / Jesper Sørensen -- Hobbyhorse performances : a ritual attribute of carnivalesque traditions and its literary appropriation in sottie theatre /Katia Gvozdeva -- Desire for viewing : a deluge of images in the Middle Ages / Christof L. Diedrichs -- The passion clock , a Lutheran way of the cross / Henrik v. Achen -- Remembering ritual murder : the anti- semitic blood accusation narrative in medieval and contemporary cultural memory / Richart Utz -- Ericus Olai s Chronica regni Gothorum : a discourse on dominance / Biörn Tjällén -- Rituals and genres in a twentieth-century operatic portrayal of a medieval saint / Siglind Bruhn -- Useful if treated with caution : carnevalization in Don Quijote / Jø rgen Bruhn -- The phenomenon of concert applause : interactions between institution, ritual, and musical genre / Heinrich W. Schwab -- The aria, the stylus melismaticus, and the Holy Communion / Lars Berglund -- Weill and Brecht s Das Berliner requiem : a secular work in a sacred tradition / Magnar Breivik -- Going through all these things twice : the ritual of a Bob Dylan concert / Eyolf Østrem -- Music practices around Bob Dylan, medieval rituals, and modernity / Nils Holger Petersen.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals : Genre and Ritual
• Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen
• Publication Date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 8763502410
• ISBN 13: 9788763502412
• Binding: orig.wrappers
• Illustrator: Textual illustrations.
• Condition: Minor rubbing. VG.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval History

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Synopsis

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 special issue of the journal TRANSfiguration sheds light on the complex relationship between the two broad and difficult terms, genre and ritual, within the cultural history of Europe.

About the Author

Nils Holger Petersen is associate professor and appointed centre leader at the Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. Mette Birkedal Bruun is post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. Jens Fleishcer is associate professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Eyolf Ostrem is post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.