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Université de Fribourg

Medieval Convent Drama : Translating Scripture and Transforming the Liturgy

Dutton, Elisabeth ; Robinson, Olivia ; Cheung-Salisbury, Matthew

In: A Companion to Medieval Translation, 2019, p. 63-74

This article examines a vernacular Nativity play from the convent at Huy, in modern- day Belgium. The play includes liturgical citations that would have been sung in Latin, alongside the Walloon French lines that translate generically -- scriptural narrative into verse drama -- as well as linguistically. Scriptural narrative is also expanded through the addition of apocryphal material and...

Université de Fribourg

The Heritage of Ancestors : Early Studies on Armenian Manuscripts and Miniature Painting

Grigoryan Savary, Gohar

In: Venezia Arti, 2018, vol. 27, p. 81-102

This essay deals with the emergence of scholarship on medieval Armenian artifacts with a particular emphasis on the study of manuscripts and miniature painting, and covers the period from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth century. While the title of this article may appear to stress the heritage of the Armenians as belonging to a ‘national culture’, it also...

Université de Fribourg

Performance-based Research in the Medieval Convent

Robinson, Olivia

In: European Medieval Drama, 2017, vol. 21, p. 21-41

This article begins with Adrian Armstrong’s discussion of the coterie poetry composed by Charles d’Orléans and his associates at Blois to explore the ‘epistemic value and qualities’ not of communal poetry but rather of communal theatre within a quite different social group: a convent of Carmelite nuns in late-fifteenth-century Burgundy. In it I suggest that some of the ways in which...