The York Corpus Christi Plays by Clifford Davidson
The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host, the consecrated wafer that was believed to have been transformed into the true body and blood of Jesus. In this way thecultus Deithus celebrated allowed the people to venerate the Eucharistic bread in order that they might be stimulated to devotion and brought symbolically, even mystically into a relationship with the central moments of salvation history. Perhaps it is logical, therefore, that pageants and plays were introduced in order to access yet another way of visualizing and participating in those events. Thus theinvisible thingsof the divine orderfrom the creation of the worldmight be displayed. The York Corpus Christi Plays, contained in London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290 and comprising more than thirteen thousand lines of verse, actually represent a unique survival of medieval theater. They form the only complete play cycle verifiably associated with the feast of Corpus Christi that is extant and was performed at a specific location in England.-
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The Minor Latin Works
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The Wallace
Clifford Davidson is Professor Emeritus from Western Michigan University specializing in medieval drama.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781580441629 |
| ISBN 10 | 1580441629 |
| Title | The York Corpus Christi Plays |
| Author | Clifford Davidson |
| Series | Teams Middle English Texts Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Medieval Institute Publications |
| Year published | 2011-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 614 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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