The Digby Play of Mary Magdalene, ed. Chester N. Scoville. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2018, 113 pp., 2 b/w ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 483-483
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Mary Magdalene ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
To Come ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
The Middle Ages

Not surprisingly, the late medieval Digby Play of Mary Magdalene offers itself as an ideal text for an advanced university class on late medieval English literature, being an extraordinary literary mirror of the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene and her historical context, with numerous tyrant figures appearing on the stage and exposing their own hypocrisy and hubris in contrast to the main protagonist, apart from Jesus, of course. Numerous figures appear on the stage, engaging with Mary Magdalene, such as knights, heathen priests, a Jew, Pilate, a messenger, Herod, a provost, the emperor, the archangel Raphael, etc. The play was composed between 1515 and 1525, and despite the late date still fully fits into the Middle Ages, considering its religious framework and mental-historical character, even though the language is already far removed from that used by Chaucer. Nevertheless, the playwright expected a vast amount of highly challenging stage work to happen, including a ship traveling <?page nr="484"?>around or a temple to come crushing down, which indicates major cultural changes on their way.

English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages

1946 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 426
Author(s):  
Beatrice White ◽  
E. K. Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Middle Ages

scholarly journals Od Lopsike do Svetoga Jurja: 700 godina od prvoga prikaza Sv. Jurja na geografskim kartama

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-202
Author(s):  
Mithad Kozličić
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Mountain Pass ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
First Order ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Coastal Settlement ◽  
The Middle Ages

This paper offers an analysis, based on original cartographic material as a historical source of the first order, of the significance of the settlement situated in the position of today’s Sveti Juraj near Senj as a nexus of overseas and hinterland commerce. It is regarded as a coastal settlement, which entails a port that is a connection between the circulation between merchant goods from the hinterland towards other overseas destinations, as well as goods which arrived by sea traffic in order to be transported to the hinterland market. In that regard it is important that above Senj a mountain pass (Vratnik) is located by which Velebit is traversed. The notorious Bura, however, which shortened the season of navigation, is also a factor. Considering that in antiquity Lopsica was situated there, and that in the Middle Ages Sveti Juraj would mature, it was deemed interesting to consider the shift in the two names of the settlement. For this reason, the problem is examined here up to the Late Medieval era, as later attestations are present on almost all of the available cartographic works of world-famous cartographers. This paper was written in celebration of the 700th anniversary of the affirmation of Sveti Juraj near Senj as a settlement and port in the most important historical cartographic sources.

World Medievalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise D'Arcens
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Indigenous Australia ◽  
Global Modernity ◽  
To Come ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
The Middle Ages

World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present. Building its argument through four case studies—from the Middle East, France, Southeast Asia, and Indigenous Australia–it shows that to understand medievalism as a cultural idiom with global reach, we need to develop a more nuanced grasp of the different ways ‘the Middle Ages’ have come to signify beyond Europe as well as within a Europe that has been transformed by multiculturalism and the global economy. The book’s case studies are explored within a conceptual framework in which medievalism itself is formulated as ‘world-disclosing’—a transhistorical encounter that enables the modern subject to apprehend the past ‘world’ opened up in medieval and medievalist texts and objects. The book analyses the cultural and material conditions under which its texts are produced, disseminated, and received and examines literature alongside films, television programs, newspapers and journals, political tracts, as well as such material and artefactual texts as photographs, paintings, statues, buildings, rock art, and fossils. While the case studies feature distinctive localized forms of medievalism, taken together they reveal how imperial and global legacies have ensured that the medieval period continues to be perceived as a commonly held past that can be retrieved, reclaimed, or revived in response to the accelerated changes and uncertainties of global modernity.

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