Medieval Liturgical Space vs. Staging. The Choir Screen of the Cathedral of Laon and the Public Exorcism of Nicole Obry
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https://doi.org/10.37536/RPM.2017.31.0.58482Keywords:
Laon, Quire-screen, Jubé, Choir, Cathedral, Architecture, Exorcism, Liturgy, TheatreAbstract
In 1566, the exorcism of the young Nicole Obry was used by the French Catholicism as argument of debate against the reformist critic to the cult to the Eu¬charist and the Saints. To this end, this case of diabolic possession became a Eucha¬ristic miracle, for which several texts were written and two engravings were desig¬ned. In both engravings, there were represented the long ceremony of the exorcism carried out in the cathedral of Laon, but in the second one they draw a synthetically represented image of the whole process, over a scaffold next to the quire-screen of the cathedral. This article deals with the architectural and liturgical implications of this second engraving in our understanding of the medieval cathedral, as opposed to its consideration as a source for the history of theater.
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