The Ambivalences of Medieval Religious DramaWhat is medieval religious drama, and what function does it serve in negotiating between the domains of theology and popular life? This book aims to answer these questions by studying three sets of these dramas: tenth century Easter plays, twelfth century Adam plays, and fifteenth and sixteenth century Passion plays. However, the authors intent is not to present a genre history. Instead, he seeks to mediate between the historical development of the