Clifford Davidson Boeken

Focusing on medieval festival plays in Britain, this comprehensive survey provides an inclusive perspective on drama across the British Isles. It features in-depth analyses of specific plays, including the lesser-known Bodley plays, and offers insights into their production. The book is structured around the rituals of liturgical seasons, highlighting the connection between liturgical feasts and dramatic celebrations, thereby enriching the understanding of medieval performance traditions.

The book explores the significant contributions of Norwegian immigrants in Michigan during the nineteenth century, highlighting their roles in the lumber trade, agriculture, and mining. It emphasizes the blend of Norwegian culture with local traditions, as well as the varied adaptation experiences among immigrants. Notably, engineers from Norway played a crucial role in developing infrastructure, including bridges and cars. Enhanced by photographs and maps, the narrative captures the transformative impact of this immigrant community on the region's cultural landscape.

This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in the Carthusian monastery near Coventry; the devotional images in the Carthusian Miscellany ; and meditation for “simple souls” in the Carthusian Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ . Emphasis is on such aspects as memory, participative theology, devotional images, meditative practice, and techniques of constructing patterns of sacred imagery.