{"title":"\"With myrth and gam, To the lawde of this lam\": Shepherds and the Agnus Dei in the York and Towneley Plays","authors":"Jamie Beckett","doi":"10.1484/j.emd.5.116051","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Allusions to the Lamb of God have often been noted in the York Offering of the Shepherds and the Towneley Prima and Secunda Pastorum, the comic pastors aligned with the coming of Christ. Yet in the period of these performances the Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God, represented more than we might first glean from visual iconography, or the several lines spoken at Mass. The term Agnus Dei could also refer to a popular devotional object with supposedly magical or apotropaic powers, the properties of which-I argue-are playfully referenced in these performances. I consider how and why these popular amulets might have shaped the plays, and particularly how this reading might offer a new approach to understanding the wealth of humour within them.","PeriodicalId":39581,"journal":{"name":"European Medieval Drama","volume":"21 1","pages":"141-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Medieval Drama","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.emd.5.116051","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Allusions to the Lamb of God have often been noted in the York Offering of the Shepherds and the Towneley Prima and Secunda Pastorum, the comic pastors aligned with the coming of Christ. Yet in the period of these performances the Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God, represented more than we might first glean from visual iconography, or the several lines spoken at Mass. The term Agnus Dei could also refer to a popular devotional object with supposedly magical or apotropaic powers, the properties of which-I argue-are playfully referenced in these performances. I consider how and why these popular amulets might have shaped the plays, and particularly how this reading might offer a new approach to understanding the wealth of humour within them.
期刊介绍：
European Medieval Drama (EMD) is an annual journal published by Brepols. It was launched in 1997 in association with the International Conferences on Medieval European Drama organised at the University of Camerino, Italy, by Sydney Higgins between 1996 and 1999. The first four volumes of European Medieval Drama (1997-2000) published the Acts of these conferences. This series of conferences was suspended for the foreseeable future in 1999. At the Tenth Triennial Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l"étude du Théâtre Médiéval (SITM), held in Groningen, the Netherlands, in August 2001, it was proposed that EMD should be published in association with SITM. This proposal has now been approved by all interested parties, and comes into effect as of spring 2002.
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