The Laity, the Church and the Mystery Plays A Drama of Belonging

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ISBN: 9781846821530 | 1846821533
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Copyright: 4/17/2009

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Over the course of more than two hundred and fifty years, from the fourteenth century until well after the Reformation had become established, biblical plays were performed by groups of lay people across England. From the great public performances at York

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Foreword by Dame Judi Dench	p. 5
Abbreviations	p. 8
Introduction	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 24
Contexts
Religious and cultural contexts	p. 27
Theology and liturgy	p. 27
The rise of canon law	p. 31
Liturgy and liturgy	p. 32
Lay piety	p. 34
The parish clergy	p. 37
Heretical movements	p. 45
English catechetical syllabi	p. 49
Consequences of Lateran IV	p. 52
Religious education and literacy	p. 54
Lay exclusion from the Mass	p. 57
Authorship of the mystery plays	p. 62
English guilds and religious practice	p. 67
Guild ordinances and guild worship	p. 67
Play-producing guilds	p. 73
Theology, devotion and mystery plays	p. 78
Church discipline, orthodoxy and translation	p. 86
Plays, advertisements and the body of Christ	p. 90
Drama of Belonging
The Decalogue and the mystery plays	p. 101
Contrasting opinions on the mystery plays	p. 101
The fundamentals of the church syllabus	p. 104
The syllabus in other literary genres	p. 105
The Decalogue and the Moses plays	p. 105
The Decalogue in the plays of Christ and the doctors	p. 107
The creeds and the Paternoster	p. 131
Recitations of the creed	p. 133
The creed in the Chester cycle	p. 134
The Chester Pentecost and the Goodman letters	p. 145
God the father in the plays	p. 147
The Paternoster and the plays	p. 152
The Creed play and The Paternoster play of York	p. 153
Identification of the father with the son	p. 155
Mary in the mystery plays	p. 161
Official devotion to Mary	p. 161
Marian drama	p. 166
The Marian group in the York plays	p. 168
Marian plays of the nativity	p. 181
The Marian plays in the N-town manuscript	p. 189
Christ in the mystery plays	p. 198
Christ as an image of dissent	p. 198
Christ in Mirk's De nativitate domini nostri	p. 201
Christ in The lay folks catechism	p. 203
Christology and the York Nativity	p. 206
Christ in the Towneley shepherds' plays	p. 210
An alternative christology: the York Crucifixion	p. 223
Christ after the crucifixion	p. 232
Afterword	p. 240
Bibliography	p. 243
Index	p. 253
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The Laity, the Church and the Mystery Plays A Drama of Belonging

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