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.
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