The Litany in Arts and Cultures (Studia Traditionis Theologiae: Explorations in Early and MEdieval Theology, 36) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 2503586708 ISBN 13: 9782503586700

Verlag: Brepols Publishers, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

The articles in this book encompass a broad historical panorama and consider the presence of litanic prayers and songs in different religions, beginning with written records in the Egyptian, Sumerian and Hebrew languages and finishing with Christian works from diverse denominations. The research presents the litany as an exceptionally long-lasting genre which for several thousand years existed in the Middle-Eastern and European traditions, easily conforming to changes in religious or historical circumstances. An interdisciplinary approach by scholars representing different fields of study, including the history of the liturgy, Egyptology, Assyriology, literary studies, musicology and ethnosemiotics, allows the eclectic character of litanies to be revealed, litanies which not only were a form of church prayer but also had an impact on the organization of social rituals as well as being appropriated by all the major fields of art, that is poetry, the fine arts and music. The musicological articles in the book address the performance of Sumerian prayers, the liturgical songs of the Middle Ages, litanies in Tudor England and polyphonic works of the great composers, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Witold Sadowski is professor of literary theory at the University of Warsaw. His latest book European Litanic Verse : A Different Space-Time (218) describes enumerative versification from Antiquity to Early Modernity with a particular focus on the space-time matrix within which the world is depicted in litanic poems.Francesco Marsciani is professor of semiotics and ethnosemiotics at the University of Bologna. He was a student of Umberto Eco in Bologna and Algirdas Greimas in Paris. Among his publications are the following books : Ricerche Semiotiche I and II, and Tracciati di Etnosemiotica (recently translated into French).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Brepols Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 2503586708
• ISBN 13: 9782503586700
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 317
• Herausgeber: Sadowski Witold, Marsciani Francesco
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• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar