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Dear Valentina, There is a famous passage in the chronicle by the Franciscan John of Winterthur relating to the setting of the stage for sermons by Berthold of Regensburg: http://www-alt.uni-trier.de/uni/fb3/geschichte/cluse/pred5.htm Please give my best regards to George and Carolyn Christoph Cluse, Trier Abigail Ann Young schrieb: > I confess that I cannot think of anything that quite meets the > criteria in this question, so I thought of throwing it open to the > list. If you have any suggestions, please reply both to the list and > to Ms Berardini. > > Abigail > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Request of Information on G. Ferzoco suggestion > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:47:36 +0100 (CET) > From: <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > > > > Dear Prof. Young, > I am writing you on Prof. George Ferzoco's suggestion. I am an Italian > Phd student and I am now spending a study period at the University of > Bristol working with Prof. G. Ferzoco and Prof. C. Muessig. My PhD > research project is about the relationship between medieval preaching > and theatre. Thus I am reading sermons by English and Italian > preachers in order to discover hidden theatrical element that can show > the use of theatrical means by preachers. In order to achieve this aim > I am interested in finding documents (if they exist) about the setting > of the preaching scene by which is it possible to demonstrate that > medieval preaching shared a lot of features with theatre. Although all > of the authors of the Artes Praedicandi spoke against theatre and > tried to avoid any similarity between preachers and minstrels and > actors, still preachers used a lot of actors' means in order to catch > the attention of the public. > Have you ever find anything related with this topic? > It would be a pleasure to share with you my thoughts on this research > as I am very interested in your project. > Thank you for your kindness, I am looking forward for your reply, > Best, > Valentina Berardini > >