While reading your interesting messages on drama in the Middle Ages, I was
thinking of some texts (Sacchetti, for example) which speak about the
utilization of images in para-liturgical dramas. Do you know anything about
such a praxis?
At 12.30 08/12/97, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 10:48:36 GMT
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: QUERY: Innocent II & Religious Drama.
>From: laura jacobus <[log in to unmask]>
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>The idea that the plays were pushed out of the churches and
>into the piazze is oversimplified. The Church had worries
>about certain dramatic excesses, but in fact dramas
>continued to be performed in the Chuches through the Middle
>Ages. Dramas were also performed in secular spaces in the
>open-air, but more often than not this was an entirely
>separate phenomenon with its own vernacular and secular
>traditions.
>
>
>Laura Jacobus
>
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