Performance, cognitive theory, and devotional culture
Subtitle: sensual piety in late medieval York
By: Jill Stevenson.
Series: Cognitive studies in literature and performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230103191
Subjects: York plays; Theater -- England -- York -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500; Christian drama, English (Middle) -- England -- York -- History and criticism; Mysteries and miracle-plays, English -- England -- York -- History and criticism; English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Rites and ceremonies, Medieval -- England -- York -- History; Christianity and literature -- England -- York -- History -- To 1500; York (England) -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : devotional modes of becoming in late medieval York; title: Performance literacy : theorizing medieval devotional seeing; title: Material devotion : objects as performance events; title: Claiming devotional space; title: Devotion and conceptual blending; title: Pious body rhythms; title: Empathy, entrainment, and devotional instability; title: Coda : medieval sensual piety and a few 21st-century religious rhythms.