Dean's Seminar - Prophets-Play: Personifying the Old Testament from Early Christian Homiletics to Medieval Drama
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- Speaker(s):
- Dr Peter Toth, Long Term Frances A Yates Fellow, Warburg Institute
- Event date:
- Wednesday 13 June 2012
School of Advanced Study, University of London
- Description
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Dean's Seminar: Prophets-Play: Personifying the Old Testament from Early Christian Homiletics to Medieval Drama
Referring to sayings from revered figures of the past has always been a very delicate and controversial matter so special techniques and methods have been developed in order to quote them persuasively. The paper sets out to investigate the origin and afterlife of a particular type of quotation-technique which might provide us with the key to understand the appearance of apocryphal dialogue and its staged version the medieval drama.
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