The Civic Pageantry of Corpus Christi in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Dublin

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-96
Author(s):  
Alan J. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Corpus Christi

The origins of the so-called regius professorships: an aspect of the renaissance in Oxford and Cambridge

1977 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 271-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Donald Logan
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
New Learning ◽  
New Foundations ◽  
Pedagogy And Curriculum ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Traditional Pedagogy

The universities at Oxford and Cambridge constituted two of the principal foci for the forces favouring renewal in sixteenth-century England. The towering personalities of John Fisher and Erasmus of Rotterdam set the goal of loosening the bonds of the traditional pedagogy and curriculum. The establishment of new foundations such as, at Cambridge, Christ College and, even more immediately, St John’s College and, at Oxford, Corpus Christi College and Cardinal College provided an institutional framework for the new learning. So, too, did the provisions for new ‘professorships’—the term will be used for the moment.

The Search for a Dramatic Formula for the Auto Sacramental

PMLA ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1196-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce W. Wardropper
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Religious Drama ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
Auto Sacramental

The Corpus Christi play in sixteenth-century Spain evolved as it did because poets were consciously searching for a dramatic formula which should be appropriate to a sacramental play. The idea of a sacramental play, an auto sacramental, was new at that time. A sacramental drama had never before been attempted, either in Spain or elsewhere. Corpus Christi was celebrated, in. Spain as in Europe at large, with performances of mystery-type plays derived from the tropes of the liturgy. The earliest Corpus plays in Spain were Nativity plays which dramatists scarcely troubled to adapt. As the problem of making the Christmas play appropriate to Corpus Christi forced itself on the attention of dramatists a new idea of religious drama emerged.

History of Universities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
College Education ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
History Of ◽  
Humanist Tradition ◽  
History Of Universities

This book contains the customary mix of learned chapters and book review chapters which cover a variety of aspects of the history of higher education, focusing in this case on Corpus Christi College in Oxford and Tudor England. Chapters look at topics such as Church, State, and corpus; patronage, performativity, and ideas at Corpus Christi; the English humanist tradition; musical participation in early Tudor education; life in a sixteenth-century college; education during the reign of Henry VIII; Tudor Oxford; and English antiquarianism.

“We Need Not See the Church with the Eyes”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Porterfield
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Body ◽  
City Government ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Black Death ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
The Church

Corpus Christi parades brought different groups together in medieval cities to venerate the eucharistic wafer, representing social order and membership in the body of Christ. When cities and trade recovered in the generations after the Black Death of the 1340s, the Eucharist became a source of contention, with reformers demanding that priests, cities, and merchant elites be held more accountable to Pauline ideals. Protest erupted in Florence as Medici bankers exploited Pauline ideals to manipulate kings, popes, and city government. Amsterdam’s ascendance as a hub of commerce in the sixteenth century depended on organizations of mutual trust rooted in Pauline ideals. London began its climb to overtake Amsterdam in commercial clout through the development of a nationwide system of law and taxation that coincided with new efforts to join commerce and Christianity.

The Evolution of the Form of Plays in English During the Renaissance

1990 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Howard-Hill
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Classical Method ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
Liturgical Drama ◽  
The University

The modern arrangement of the texts of plays evolved from the confluence of two distinct methods of setting out plays for readers and theatrical use. The earliest, which I shall call the native tradition, had its seeds in the European liturgical drama and is most clearly manifested in the manuscripts of the early moral plays and of guild plays associated with Corpus Christi from the fourteenth century to the cessation of the performances late in the sixteenth century. The second is the classical method, exemplified by the early printings of the plays of Terence, Plautus, and Seneca from 1470 onwards and adopted by the university educated writers of secular plays in the sixteenth century.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as an Emotional Community

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-102
Author(s):  
Miri Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter focuses on the aesthetic of the cultural moment at which Corpus Christi College was founded: 1517 lies on the cusp between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in England. If one accepts that cusp as fundamentally contested, it remains fruitful to explore how the main actors in affairs of Church and State manifest certain tastes and ideas, combining ‘medieval‘ and ‘Renaissance‘ themes, that are identifiable as elements of coterie-signalling. Two artefacts directly associated with Richard Fox, the College’s founder, stand as such signals, that is material testimonies to group-definition in the dominant sub-culture. The chapter then draws on the wider ecclesiastical and court milieu to explore how performative gestures in the patronage of the built environment have counterparts in actual performance, in the pageantry and plays of the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century.

A New Version of a Mid-sixteenth century Vernacular Tract on the Eucharist: A Document of the Early Edwardian Reformation?

1988 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-229
Author(s):  
D. G. Selwyn
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Middle Years ◽  
Corpus Christi

The document presented here makes available a hitherto unknown version of an anonymous vernacular tract dating from the middle years of the sixteenth century. The only known version of the tract until now — extant in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge — was first published by Dr P. N. Brooks in an appendix to his monograph on Thomas Cranmer's eucharistic doctrine (1965).Beyond placing it in the ‘mid-sixteenth century’, Brooks did not attempt t 0 attribute it to an author or indicate its precise historical context beyond suggesting that it provided a ‘valuable period example of the Lutheran understanding of the eucharistic presence’ such as was favoured by Richard Cheyney (bishop of Gloucester, 1562-79) and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in the period between abandoning transubstantiation and embracing a version of the Reformed doctrine. The longer version of the tract which has since come to light in the Bodleian would seem to call for some reassessment of that estimate. For while consistent with a Lutheran doctrine of the eucharistic presence, the Bodleian version concludes with sections on eucharistic adoration and oblation (not found in the Corpus MS). This suggests a closer affinity with the position championed by opponents of the religious changes in the reign of Edward VI, or at least an attempt at a doctrinal consensus between those of the ‘old’ persuasion and those of the ‘new’.

scholarly journals Patronage, Performativity, and Ideas of Corpus Christi

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-80
Author(s):  
Pamela M. King
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
University Colleges ◽  
Royal Supremacy ◽  
The Way

This chapter details relations between Church and state in Richard Fox’s age. The break with Rome, the royal supremacy, and the dissolution of the monasteries irreversibly altered the way in which the early Tudor polity would be conceived. Already in the sixteenth century, accounts of this period were informed by the Reformation. Incidents such as Bishop Fox’s change of plan at Oxford—transforming a primarily monastic ‘Winchester College‘ into the secular Corpus Christi College—became overlaid with foreshadowed significance. Ultimately, Fox’s was the last great age of bishops founding university colleges, since the requisite mix of authority and wealth seldom coalesced so favourably thereafter and certainly could not during the assault on episcopal incomes later in the sixteenth century. Clerical dominance in Church and state made Corpus.

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