Cosmic Signs: The Representation of Go[o]d and [the] [D]Evil in the Medieval Morality Play Mankind.

dc.contributor.authorRaftery, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-21T14:33:51Z
dc.date.available2021-01-21T14:33:51Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThe English moralities make use of different foci and techniques to create the spirit of repentance which Potter claims to be their central and unifying theme and aim. While Castle of Perseverance investigates the whole spiritual course of God`s creation innocence, followed by iterated temptation, fall and redemption over the whole human lifespan, and Every man encapsulates only its last, urgent hours, Mankind reveals the interconnectedness of the divine and the demonic with the quotidian. In the course of the normal, apparently chance encounters of the day, Mankind represents the human soul adrift between Redemption and Damnation. On the one hand, he is in the loving care of God via the counsel of the priest (whose allegorical name, Mercy, allows him to denote both the saving virtue of forgiveness and a clerical character representing God and Christ). On the other, Mankind is equally the prey of the devil via temptation to sin by the other characters he meets: the Vice, Mischief; the Devil, Titivillus, and the three world lings, New Guise, Nowadays, and Nought.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCosmic Signs: The Representation of Go[o]d and [the] [D]Evil in the Medieval Morality Play Mankind,1017-3455,The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1017-3455
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12430/549358
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherThe Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SASMARS)en_ZA
dc.titleCosmic Signs: The Representation of Go[o]d and [the] [D]Evil in the Medieval Morality Play Mankind.en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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