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.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on ContibutorsIntroductionCarla M. Bino and Corinna Ricasoli1 The Drama of Christian Images: Art, Liturgy, Sacred TheatreTimothy Verdon2 A ‘Dramatic Turn’: The Revolution of Christian RepresentationCarla M. Bino3 No Drama Please, We’re Greek: Sacred Plays from a Greek Orthodox PerspectiveAndrew Walker White4 Enacting Sacred Narrative: Biblical, Liturgical, and Sacramental Practices in the Latin WestNils Holger Petersen5 Mary in the Scriptures as Container and Way: Henry Adams and the Virgin of ChartresRachel Fulton Brown6 The Power of Images of Passion: Animated Sculptures of the Crucified Christ and the Problem of Visualizing Suffering in Medieval ArtKamil Kopania7 Women as Performers of the Bible: Female Preaching in Premodern EuropeCarolyn Muessig8 Dramatic Action and the Participatory Spectator at the Sacro Monte di Varallo: Frozen Theatre or Immersive Installation?Allie Terry-Fritsch9 The Paradox of the Saint Actress: Church and Commedia Dell’arte during the Counter-ReformationFabrizio Fiaschini10 Performing Glory: The Misteri or Festa D’elx on Contemporary StagesFrancesc Massip11 Performing the Bible: Christian Drama and the ArtsJean-Claude SchmittCopyrightIndex