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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823579103321

Autore

Dox Donnalee

Titolo

The idea of the theater in Latin Christian thought : Augustine to the fourteenth century / / Donnalee Dox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-44547-2

9786612445477

0-472-02515-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

792/.0937/0902

Soggetti

Theater - Rome - Historiography

Theater - History - To 500 - Historiography

Theater - History - Medieval, 500-1500 - Historiography

Theater - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600

Theater - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Christian literature, Early - Latin authors - History and criticism

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Idea of a Theater in Late Antiquity: Augustine's Critique and Isidore's History -- Chapter Two: Transmission and Transformation: Liturgical Allegory and the Idea of Theater -- Chapter Three: Renaissance and Reorientation: Ancient Theater Revisited in the Twelfth Century -- Chapter Four: From Poetics to Performance: The Reception and Interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics to the Early Fourteenth Century -- Chapter Five: Afterword: From Idea to Practice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.