Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages
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- ISBN 9781350416765
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 168 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 21 Sep 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world’s most enduring art forms.
Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Jody Enders is Distinguished Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Theresa Coletti is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar Teacher Emerita at the University of Maryland, USA.
John T. Sebastian is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, USA.
Carol Symes is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
