Performance, cognitive theory, and devotional culture: sensual piety in late medieval York

This innovative work uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson's physical encounter with live religious performances in late medieval York. INDICE: Introduction: Devotional Modes of Becoming in Late Medieval York Performance Literacy: Theorizing Medieval Devotional Seeing Material Devotion: Objects as Performance Events Claiming Devotional Space Devotion and Conceptual Blending Pious Body Rhythms Empathy, Entrainment, and Devotional InstabilityCoda: Medieval Sensual Piety and A Few Twenty-first-Century Religious Rhythms

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10319-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés