Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts

Carla M. Bino, Ph.D. (2001), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, is Associate Professor of History of Theatre. She has published on the dramatic culture of the Christian Middle Ages, including Il dramma e l’immagine. Teorie cristiane della rappresentazione (Le Lettere, 2015). Corinna Ricasoli, Ph.D. (2014), is an art historian and museum curator with an international exhibition record, including The Living Dead: Ecclesiastes through Art (Ferdinand Schöning, 2018). She boasts collaborations with prominent international museums and is widely published in a variety of peer-reviewed forms. Contributors are Carla M. Bino, Rachel Fulton Brown, Fabrizio Fiaschini, Kamil Kopania, Francesc Massip, Carolyn Muessig, Nils Holger Petersen, Jean–Claude Schmitt, Allie Terry-Fritsch, Timothy Verdon, Andrew Walker White.

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contibutors



Introduction

 Carla M. Bino and Corinna Ricasoli

1 The Drama of Christian Images: Art, Liturgy, Sacred Theatre

 Timothy Verdon

2 A ‘Dramatic Turn’: The Revolution of Christian Representation

 Carla M. Bino

3 No Drama Please, We’re Greek: Sacred Plays from a Greek Orthodox Perspective

 Andrew Walker White

4 Enacting Sacred Narrative: Biblical, Liturgical, and Sacramental Practices in the Latin West

 Nils Holger Petersen

5 Mary in the Scriptures as Container and Way: Henry Adams and the Virgin of Chartres

 Rachel Fulton Brown

6 The Power of Images of Passion: Animated Sculptures of the Crucified Christ and the Problem of Visualizing Suffering in Medieval Art

 Kamil Kopania

7 Women as Performers of the Bible: Female Preaching in Premodern Europe

 Carolyn Muessig

8 Dramatic Action and the Participatory Spectator at the Sacro Monte di Varallo: Frozen Theatre or Immersive Installation?

 Allie Terry-Fritsch

9 The Paradox of the Saint Actress: Church and Commedia Dell’arte during the Counter-Reformation

 Fabrizio Fiaschini

10 Performing Glory: The Misteri or Festa D’elx on Contemporary Stages

 Francesc Massip

11 Performing the Bible: Christian Drama and the Arts

 Jean-Claude Schmitt



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