ENGS 021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Geoffrey Chaucer, Great Vowel Shift, Vibraphone
12 Nov 2017
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) made concrete various important dates/services within liturgical church. Good friday service (day christ was crucified) Cross (crucifix) stands in for physical body of christ lowered from regular height. Procession through church, crucifix lowered into sepulchre of sorts. All candles are extinguished and not relit until following sunday morning because that is when christ was resurrected ritual. Liturgy various services within church year; all biblical events that became dramatized in literature i. e. christmas play, passion play, Corpus christi series of plays depicting christ"s birth through. Cycle plays (wagon plays) in which various biblical events (i. e. old testament, birth/death of christ, 2nd coming of christ, etc. ) were performed as individual scenes on wagons and crowds would either travel from wagon to wagon or wagons would proceed in chronological order through village/audience. Scenes could be performed 15+ times per day. Moving away from church topics & into paganism/humanism, which pissed.
