Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2023

Seiten: 161-187

Zeitschrift: European Medieval Drama

Bandnummer: 27

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.EMD.5.137682

Verlag: Brepols Publishers

Abstract: 

The paper suggests a confessional reading of Hanns Wagner’s play about St Maurice and St Ursus, staged for the 100^th anniversary of Solothurn’s admission to the Swiss Confederation in 1581. Wagner uses diverse verbal and theatrical methods of religious persuasion, addressing an audience of mixed confession, who are given the role of ‘the people’. By contrast with the ruler, who is the most negatively portrayed, the ‘people’ are shown to be convinced by words that visibly come true and by miracles, accepting the major Catholic prayers, and the Catholic understanding of baptism and of sainthood.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Dietl, C. (2023) Catechism and Miracles as Arguments in Religious Debate: Hanns Wagner’s Play of St Ursus, European Medieval Drama, 27, pp. 161-187. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.EMD.5.137682

APA-Zitierstil: Dietl, C. (2023). Catechism and Miracles as Arguments in Religious Debate: Hanns Wagner’s Play of St Ursus. European Medieval Drama. 27, 161-187. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.EMD.5.137682