Category: Medieval drama

Medieval theatre covers all drama produced in Europe over that thousand year period and refers to a variety of genres, including liturgical drama, mystery plays, morality plays, farces and masques.

Category: Medieval drama

Category: Medieval drama

The work is considered an imitation of a Medieval mystery play, a type of drama popular in the 14th century.

Medieval liturgical drama recounted Biblical events, including Herod's slaughter of the innocents.

Dumbshows were a Medieval element that continued to be popular in early Elizabethan drama, but by the time Pericles ( c. 1607 – 08 ) or Hamlet ( c. 1600 – 02 ) were staged, they were perhaps quaintly old-fashioned: “ What means this, my lord ?” is Ophelia's reaction.

Jean Fouquet: The Martyrdom of St. Appolonia ( 1460 ), depicting the staging of a mystery play, led by a theatre directorIn Medieval times, the complexity of vernacular religious drama, with its large scale mystery plays that often included crowd scenes, processions and elaborate effects, gave the role of director ( or stage manager or pageant master ) considerable importance.

Early Medieval ( Gupta period ) literature in India sees the flowering of Sanskrit drama, classical Sanskrit poetry and the compilation of the Puranas.

Category: Medieval drama

Having its roots in Medieval theatre, stage combat enters classical theatre choreography with Elizabethan drama ( Shakespeare's simple and oft seen stage direction, they fight ).

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Category: Medieval drama

Grim is one in a long series of devil plays that unite Elizabethan drama with the Medieval drama from which it grew.

Category: Medieval drama

Category: Medieval drama

Category: Medieval drama

Category: Medieval drama

In the context of English Renaissance drama, the villain play grew out of the " ranting Herod " of the Medieval morality play.

Category: Medieval drama

Category: Medieval drama

Category: Medieval drama

Medieval bestiaries also mention several varieties of satyrs, sometimes comparing them to apes or monkeys.

Medieval biblical manuscripts of the Tiberian mesorah sometimes contain the Hebrew text interpolated, verse-by-verse, with the targumim.

Among the Catholics, Protestants, and secular leadership of the European Late Medieval / Early Modern period, fears about witchcraft rose to fever pitch, and sometimes led to large-scale witch-hunts.

Medieval art often depicts unicorns as small, with cloven hooves and beards, sometimes resembling goats more than horses with horns.

Medieval broadheads could be made from steel, sometimes with hardened edges.

According to an argument outlined by Maria Rosa Menocal in The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, in 11th-century Spain, a group of wandering poets appeared who would go from court to court, and sometimes travel to Christian courts in southern France, a situation closely mirroring what would happen in southern France about a century later.

Medieval antiquarians sometimes made collections of inscriptions or records of monuments, but the Varro-inspired concept of antiquitates among the Romans as the " systematic collections of all the relics of the past " faded.

* Germany: Armer Ritter ( poor knight ; the name is sometimes meant to originate from poor knights in Medieval times, having not enough gold to pay for meat, and thus eating old bread slices, coated with egg and fried )

Guillaume de Machaut ( sometimes spelled Machault ) ( c. 1300 – April 1377 ) was a Medieval French poet and composer.

Edward the Bruce ( Norman French: Edward de Brus ; Medieval Gaelic: Edubard a Briuis ; Modern Scottish Gaelic: Eideard or Iomhair Bruis ; 1280 – 14 October 1318 ), sometimes modernised Edward of Bruce, was a younger brother of King Robert I of Scotland, who supported his brother in the struggle for the crown of Scotland, then pursued his own claim in Ireland.

In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiar spirits ( sometimes referred to simply as " familiars ") were supernatural entities believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic.

Styles found in other countries sometimes associated with the German New Simplicity movement include the so-called " Holy Minimalism " of the Pole Henryk Górecki and the Estonian Arvo Pärt ( in their works after 1970 ), as well as Englishman John Tavener, who unlike the New Simplicity composers have turned back to Medieval and Renaissance models, however, rather than to 19th-century romanticism for inspiration.

* Medieval sources or courtly romances sometimes confuse Galway, Ireland, with Galloway in southwestern Scotland.

Medieval Christians identified the sphere of stars with the Biblical firmament and sometimes posited an invisible layer of water above the firmament, to accord with Genesis.

Medieval Europe made considerable use of painted tiles, sometimes producing very elaborate schemes, of which few have survived.

In the Early Medieval period, the hall, a single large open chamber, was the main, and sometimes only room of the home of a feudal lord.

Chisholm read widely in the history of philosophy, and frequently referred to the work of Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and even Continental philosophers ( although the use he made of this material has sometimes been challenged ).

Medieval world maps which share some characteristics of traditional mappae mundi but contain elements from other sources, including Portolan charts and Ptolemy's Geography are sometimes considered a fifth type, called " transitional mappae mundi ".

The epithet " le-Grand " ( Medieval Latin: Magnum ), meaning " the Great ", was added in the Middle Ages, probably to distinguish Noisy-le-Grand from the smaller settlement of Noisy-le-Sec, which was sometimes referred to as Nucenum Minus (" Noisy the Small ").

While they are currently referred to as sambusak in the Arabic-speaking world, Medieval Arabic recipe books sometimes spell it sambusaj.

The Renaissance and Medieval Players offer audiences a historical Medieval experience, performing religious plays, morality plays, and farces from the English Medieval and Early Renaissance periods, sometimes working in conjunction with the Red Masquers.

Medieval broadheads could be made from steel, sometimes with hardened edges.