Dear Laura,
in fact Francesco Sacchetti's passage (Trecentonovelle, 72) does not make
clear reference to an actual drama, but only to the elevation of a Christ's
image in the day of the Assumption.
I am interested in the subject since I am in general interested in the
functions attributed to sacred images in the later Middle Ages. About their
utilization in the religious practices and also in public ceremonies I have
written few lines in an essay whose title was: "Le sculture lignee nel
folklore religioso: alcune considerazioni", in C. Baracchini (ed.), Scultura
lignea. Lucca 1200-1425, Exhibition catalogue, Lucca 1995, pp. 31-41. I will
be grateful to anybody who would share his ideas on this subject.
Michele Bacci
At 12.46 09/12/97, you wrote:
>Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:10:02 GMT
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: QUERY: Innocent II & Religious Drama.
>From: laura jacobus <[log in to unmask]>
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>Dear Michele/others,
>
>I'm horribly embarrassed to admit that I didn't know that
>Sacchetti had anything to say on the subject of images in
>the drama (do you mean Francesco or another one?). I've
>written a bit about their use in my doctoral thesis (Gesture
>in the Art, Drama and Social Life of Late-Medieval Italy,
>Birkbeck College, London University, 1994) and in Word and
>Image 12/1 (1996), and in either of these you'll find a
>bibliography.
>
>Do let me have the Sacchetti reference if its not too much
>trouble.
>
>Laura Jacobus
>
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