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Thanks Jane!
Some of the students have a vocabulary based on Twitter etc. Trouble with 19th c. literature, let alone medieval! I have not yet found any good sermons, let me know if you have any! Virtues, vices, 7 deadly sins, necessity of penance / confession,
or anything else interesting! Magic and witchcraft are also going to be treated in the course, so sermons against superstition and the like would also be useful.
Meg
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Margaret,
Jon Cannon is your man for a good short recent treatment of medieval church architecture.
I think Tony Harrison's The Mysteries used Wakefield but cannot quite recall. That said, how stymied are the students really going to be by the original? I've always found it comprehensible.
Let me know if you can't find the sermon material in English.
Jane
On 9 December 2016 14:39:49 GMT+00:00, "Cormack, Margaret Jean" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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I have probably asked something like this before, but different people read the messages every time! I´m looking for good translations of miracle plays (esp the Wakefield harrowing of Hell) into modern English that students can understand and maybe even perform. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I have a copy of David Bevington, Medieval Drama (1975), and would like to know if this 'old classic' is an accepted narrative about the development of medieval (ecclesiastical) drama? Bevington includes a short 'Service for the consecration of a church', and I know there is a much more complex one involving much sprinkling of water, writing of the alphabet, etc. I´m sure there are also sermons about the symbolism of different parts of a church, but don´t know where to find them (in English, anyway, and my Latin isn´t good enough for a quick translation). Good short treatments of church architecture in the 12th - 15th centuries, or on iconography during that period, would also be appreciated. All this, as you will have guessed, is in preparation for an undergraduate course (next semester!) Thanks in advance for any help. Links to on-line sources would be especially helpful!
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