Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art

Gabriella Mazzon (1962), University of Innsbruck, is Professor of English Linguistics at that University. She has published monographs and articles on varieties of English, on the history of English negation, and on historical pragmatics and dialogue studies.

Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Figures

Introduction
1 Words and Images in the late Middle Ages: the Social Functions of Drama and Art
 1.1 Iconography and Textual Studies
 1.2 The Development of Visual Narratives and New Images
 1.3 The Word Enacted
 1.4 ‘Modern Piety’ and Identification: the Importance of Presence
 1.5 Witnessing and Social Control: the Value of Memory
2 The Codification of the Public Display of Emotions
 2.1 Emotions and Public Communication
 2.2 Looking at the Language
 2.3 Reading the Visual Arts
 2.4 Talking to the Congregacyoun
 2.5 Writing Paths to Salvation 123
3 Verbal and Visual Rhetoric: Lexicon and Grammar
 3.1 The Rhetoric of Parental Love
 3.2 The Rhetoric of Crime and Punishment
 3.3 The Rhetoric of Social Structure: the Powerful and the Rejected
 3.4 The Rhetoric of Pain and Memory
 3.5 The Rhetoric of Mourning and Glory
4 The Outward Gaze: Effective Audience Engagement
Conclusion

Bibliography

Index