Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry

by Laura S Lieber

Staging the Sacred examines the importance of Christian, Jewish, and Samaritan liturgical poetry from Late Antiquity through the lenses of performance, entertainment, and spectacle. Laura Lieber proposes an account of hymnody as a performative and theatrical genre, combining religious and theatrical studies to examine how performers creatively engaged their audiences, utilized different modes of performance, and created complex characters through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019006546X
• ISBN13: 9780190065461
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"