CO 1503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jongleurs, Tableau Vivant, Passion Play
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Europe in chaos: black death, scattered people and towns. Pagan religions of old: superstition, witchcraft. Crusades: try to take back holy land, lasted for a long time. Ch(cid:396)istia(cid:374) (cid:272)hu(cid:396)(cid:272)h is i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol of (cid:373)a(cid:374)y aspe(cid:272)ts of people"s daily life. Mid-400s ad theatre stops because roman theatre is unmoral. Outside entertainment: dance and music, mummers. Church banishes theatre after fall of roman empire: how are they going to teach illiterate common folk and convert uneducated pagans, answer: through art. Stained glass windows: depicted biblical stories, exploded throughout churches in europe as a teaching method. Sculpture: symbolic and allegorical, church built on stories and held up by bible characters. Painting: the development of painting spread throughout europe, the subject was often stories of the christian new testament, creatures and spirits were depicted to show the consequences of morality. Theatre: theatre is reintroduced by catholic church to show live scenes of christian stories and used as a method of teaching.
