Memory, images, and the English Corpus Christi drama Book

Introduction 1

1 Medieval Culture and the Memory Arts 7

2 The Position of Theater in the Thought of Augustine of Hippo 15

3 Medieval Aristotelianism and the Poetics of the English Corpus Christi Drama 25

4 Thomas Aquinas and the Rehabilitation of the Image: A Context for the Development of Medieval Drama 41

5 Drama as "Quick Image": The Fifteenth-Century Context 51

6 Corpus Christi Drama and the Places of Memory: Liturgical Precedents and Illuminated Manuscript Analogues 63

7 Plays, Places, and the Dramatic Records 95

8 A Bird in the Hand: Shifting Politics and Processions in Chester 105

9 Reinventing the Cycle: The Banns, the Text, and the Pentecostal Design 121

10 The Missing Link: Spaces, Places, and the Chester Whitsun Plays 135

Notes 147

Bibliography 171

List of Selected Prior Publications 177

Index 179