The recipient of the annual Award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, "This Is My Body" realigns representational practices in the early Middle Ages with current debates on the nature of representation. Michal Kobialka's study views the medieval concept of representation as having been in flux and crossed by different modes of seeing, until it was stabilized by the constitutions of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. Kobialka argues that the concept of representation in the early Middle Ages had little to do with the tradition that considers representation in terms of Aristotle or Plato; rather, it was enshrined in the interpretation of 'Hoc est corpus meum' [This is my body] - the words spoken by Christ to the apostles at the Last Supper - and in establishing the visibility of the body of Christ that had disappeared from view.
Author(s): Michal Kobialka
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: X+314
City: Ann Arbor
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. The 'Regularis concordia': "Qui facit veritatem venit ad lucem" 35
Chapter 2. "Whom Do You Seek?": 'Fides quaerens intellectum' 101
Chapter 3. 'Hoc est corpus meum': The Ternary Mode of Presence 147
Chapter 4. 'Ecclesia universalis': "This Is My Body" 197
Afterword 217
Notes 219
Selected Bibliography 287
Index 307
