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.

scholarly journals Navi che portano nell’aldilà: la raffigurazione del bivium in El viaje del alma di Lope de Vega

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Salomé Vuelta García
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Lope De Vega ◽  
Accurate Description ◽  
Spanish Theater ◽  
Auto Sacramental

The bivium of human life, narrated in the myth of Hercules and symbolized by the Pythagorean Y, was a recurring motif in Spanish theater since the second half of the sixteenth century. Lope de Vega already developed it in one of his most remote sacramental plays, Comedia del viaje del hombre. In Viaje del alma, auto sacramental of Lope composed around 1599, on the occasion of the double royal wedding of Philip III with Margaret of Austria and the infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia with the archduke Albert of Austria, and published in El peregrino en su patria, the crossroads is represented through two opposing ships, of which the playwright offers us an accurate description that has its origin in the iconographic tradition in force at the time

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.

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.

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