Ordo Rachelis, the Glossary
The Ordo Rachelis (Play of Rachel), Interfectio Puerorum (Murder of the Children), or Ludus Innocentium (Play of the Innocents) is a medieval dramatic tradition consisting in four plays and based on the Massacre of the Innocents, an event recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, and on the prophecy recorded in the Book of Jeremiah: "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not" (31:15, KJV).[1]
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33 relations: Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, Bethlehem, Biblical Magi, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Book of Jeremiah, Dumbshow, Epiphany (holiday), Fleury Abbey, Fleury Playbook, Flight into Egypt, Freising, Gabriel, Gospel of Matthew, Hebrews, Herod Archelaus, Herod the Great, Karl Young (theatre historian), King James Version, Laon, Limoges, Liturgy, Massacre of the Innocents, Medieval theatre, Notker the Stammerer, Paris, Peter Dronke, Planctus, Play (theatre), Rachel, Saint Joseph, Sponsus, Te Deum, Trope (literature).
- 11th-century manuscripts
- 11th-century plays
- Cultural depictions of Herod the Great
- Cultural depictions of the Biblical Magi
- Flight into Egypt
- Gabriel
- Herod Archelaus
- Massacre of the Innocents
- Medieval Latin literature
- Plays based on the New Testament
- Plays set in the 1st century BC
- Saint Joseph (husband of Mary)
Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges
The Abbey of Saint Martial (Abbaye Saint-Martial, Limoges; Limousin: Abadiá de Sent Marçau de Limòtges) was a monastery in Limoges, France, founded in 848 and dissolved in 1791.
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Bethlehem
Bethlehem (بيت لحم,,; בֵּית לֶחֶם) is a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the State of Palestine, located about south of Jerusalem.
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Biblical Magi
In Christianity, the Biblical Magi (or; singular), also known as the Three Wise Men, Three Kings, and Three Magi, are distinguished foreigners who visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh in homage to him.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France
The ('National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand.
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Book of Jeremiah
The Book of Jeremiah (ספר יִרְמְיָהוּ) is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament.
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Dumbshow
Dumbshow, also dumb show or dumb-show, is defined by the Oxford Dictionary of English as "gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech; mime." In the theatre the word refers to a piece of dramatic mime in general, or more particularly a piece of action given in mime within a play "to summarise, supplement, or comment on the main action".
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Epiphany (holiday)
Epiphany, or Eid al-Ghitas (عيد الغِطاس), also known as "Theophany" in Eastern Christian tradition, is a Christian feast day commemorating the visit of the Magi, the baptism of Jesus, and the wedding at Cana.
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Fleury Abbey
Fleury Abbey (Floriacum) in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France, founded in about 640, is one of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries of Western Europe, and possesses the relics of St.
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Fleury Playbook
The Fleury Playbook (Livre de Jeux de Fleury — Orléans, Bibliothèque Municipale MS. 201) is a medieval collection of Latin biblical dramas dating from around 1200 AD It was included in a composite volume of sermons, biblical texts, liturgical dramas, and hymns that was bound and kept at the library of Abbaye Saint Benoît de Fleury, a Benedictine monastery at Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, France, until after the French Revolution and is now housed in the Bibliothèque de la Ville (Municipal Library) at Orléans, France. Ordo Rachelis and Fleury Playbook are medieval drama and plays based on the New Testament.
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Flight into Egypt
The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13–23) and in New Testament apocrypha. Ordo Rachelis and flight into Egypt are Saint Joseph (husband of Mary).
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Freising
Freising is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising ''Landkreis'' (district), with a population of about 50,000.
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Gabriel
In the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baháʼí Faith), Gabriel is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to mankind.
Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Matthew is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels.
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Hebrews
The Hebrews were an ancient Semitic-speaking people.
Herod Archelaus
Herod Archelaus (Hērōidēs Archelaos; 23 BC &ndash) was the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea, including the cities Caesarea and Jaffa, for nine years.
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Herod the Great
Herod I or Herod the Great was a Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian Kingdom of Judea.
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Karl Young (theatre historian)
Karl Young (November 2, 1879 – November 17, 1943) was an American professor of English, medievalist, and theatre historian.
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King James Version
on the title-page of the first edition and in the entries in works like the "Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church", etc.--> The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I.
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Laon
Laon is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Limoges
Limoges (Lemòtges, locally Limòtges) is a city and commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne department in west-central France.
Liturgy
Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.
Massacre of the Innocents
The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is a biblical story, recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.
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Medieval theatre
Medieval theatre encompasses theatrical in the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and the beginning of the Renaissance in approximately the 15th century. Ordo Rachelis and Medieval theatre are medieval drama.
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Notker the Stammerer
Notker the Stammerer (– 6 April 912), Notker Balbulus, or simply Notker, was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall active as a composer, poet and scholar.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Peter Dronke
Ernst Peter Michael Dronke FBA (30 May 1934 – 19 April 2020) was a scholar specialising in Medieval Latin literature.
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Planctus
A planctus ("plaint") is a lament or dirge, a song or poem expressing grief or mourning.
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Play (theatre)
A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.
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Rachel
Rachel was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel.
Saint Joseph
Joseph (translit) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus. Ordo Rachelis and Saint Joseph are Saint Joseph (husband of Mary).
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Sponsus
Sponsus or The Bridegroom is a medieval Latin and Occitan dramatic treatment of Jesus' parable of the ten virgins. Ordo Rachelis and Sponsus are medieval Latin literature and medieval drama.
Te Deum
The italic (or,; from its incipit, Thee, God, we praise) is a Latin Christian hymn traditionally ascribed to AD 387 authorship, but with antecedents that place it much earlier. Ordo Rachelis and te Deum are Catholic liturgy.
Trope (literature)
A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.
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See also
11th-century manuscripts
- Alaverdi Gospels
- Anchi Gospel
- Benasque and Ballabriga rolls
- Bodleian Library, MSS Bodley 340 and 342
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 178
- Claudius Pontificals
- Domesday Book
- Freising manuscripts
- Glosas Emilianenses
- Hemming's Cartulary
- Julius Work Calendar
- Kutadgu Bilig
- Lacnunga
- Missal of Silos
- New Minster Liber Vitae
- Nowell Codex
- Old English Gospel of Nicodemus
- Old English Lapidary
- Ordo Rachelis
- Prudentius, Carmina and Miscellanea (Boulogne, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 189)
- Vita Ædwardi Regis
- Winchester Troper
11th-century plays
- Ordo Rachelis
Cultural depictions of Herod the Great
- Antiquities of the Jews
- Cave of Treasures
- Cultural depictions of Herod the Great
- Dayasagar
- Hérode et Mariamne
- Herod the Great (play)
- Jesus (TV series)
- Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
- Jesus: His Life
- Killing Jesus
- Kristubhagavatam
- L'enfance du Christ
- Life of John the Baptist
- Mariamne (Fenton play)
- Mariamne (Nadal play)
- Massacre of the Innocents (Rubens)
- Mystery play
- N-Town Plays
- Ordo Rachelis
- Puthen Pana
- Seder Olam Zutta
- The Bible (miniseries)
- The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation
- The Tragedy of Mariam
- Thembavani
- Thomasleeha
- Vindicta Salvatoris
- Visionary Heads
- Yeshu (TV series)
- York Mystery Plays
Cultural depictions of the Biblical Magi
- Adoration of the Magi in art
- Killing Jesus
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
- Ordo Rachelis
- The Archko Volume
Flight into Egypt
- Aphrodisius
- Bilbeis
- Church of the Holy Virgin (Babylon El-Darag)
- Feast of the Ass
- Flight into Egypt
- Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
- Impenitent thief
- L'enfance du Christ
- Matthew 2
- Matthew 2:13
- Matthew 2:14
- Matthew 2:15
- Ordo Rachelis
- Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church
- Syriac Infancy Gospel
- The Flight into Egypt (Harbison)
Gabriel
- Angels Fallen
- Annunciation
- Daniel 8
- Gabriel
- Gabriel (2007 film)
- Gabriel Over the White House
- Gabriel's Revelation
- Gabriel's horn
- Hadith of Gabriel
- Haizum
- Isra' and Mi'raj
- Jabal al-Nour
- Lichfield Angel
- Muhammad's first revelation
- Ordo Rachelis
- Prophecy of Seventy Weeks
- Stuck on You! (1982 film)
- Typasius
- Virgin birth of Jesus
Herod Archelaus
- Antiquities of the Jews
- Archelais
- Cave of Treasures
- Census of Quirinius
- Cotton Patch Gospel
- Epistula Apostolorum
- Ethnarch
- Glaphyra
- Herod Archelaus
- Herodian tetrarchy
- Legio X Fretensis
- Mariamne III
- Matthew 2:22
- Nicolaus of Damascus
- Ordo Rachelis
- Parable of the Talents
- Pilate cycle
- Vienne, Isère
- Vindicta Salvatoris
Massacre of the Innocents
- Boy bishop
- Chapel of the Milk Grotto
- Coventry Carol
- Els Enfarinats
- Killing Jesus
- Massacre of the Innocents
- Matthew 2
- Matthew 2:16
- Matthew 2:17
- Matthew 2:18
- Ordo Rachelis
- Sicarius of Brantôme
- The Archko Volume
- Zechariah (New Testament figure)
Medieval Latin literature
- Allegationes
- Bury Chronicle
- Clerici vagantes
- Corpus Christianorum
- Corpus Corporum
- Cura sanitatis Tiberii
- De obitu Willelmi
- Elegiac comedy
- International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture
- John of Rheinfelden
- Libellus de principiis
- Medieval Latin
- Mirabilia Urbis Romae
- Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch
- Ordo Rachelis
- Sponsus
- Summa sententiarum
- Vindicta Salvatoris
- Vita Mahometi (Uncastillo)
- Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii
Plays based on the New Testament
- Biblen
- Fleury Playbook
- Goldberg Variations (play)
- Lazarus Laughed
- Mary Magdalene (play)
- Mystery Play of Elche
- N-Town Plays
- Ordo Rachelis
- Salome (Wilde): Themes and derivatives
- Salome (play)
- The Testament of Mary (play)
- York Mystery Plays
Plays set in the 1st century BC
- Catiline (play)
- Catiline His Conspiracy
- Cato, a Tragedy
- Cornelia (play)
- Hérode et Mariamne
- Imperium (play cycle)
- Mithridate (Racine)
- Mithridates, King of Pontus
- Ordo Rachelis
- Sertorius (Bancroft play)
- Suréna
- The Tragedy of Mariam
- The Tragedy of Pompey the Great
Saint Joseph (husband of Mary)
- Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Ankawa
- Chaste Heart of Joseph
- Cotton Patch Gospel
- Dayasagar
- Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Flight into Egypt
- Genealogy of Jesus
- History of Joseph the Carpenter
- Holy Family
- Josephology
- Knock Shrine
- List of churches named after Saint Joseph
- List of places named after Saint Joseph
- Marriage of the Virgin
- Matthew 1:16
- Matthew 1:25
- Matthew 1:3
- Matthew 1:4
- Matthew 1:5
- Matthew 1:8
- Matthew 2:13
- Matthew 2:14
- Matthew 2:19
- Matthew 2:20–21
- Matthew 2:22
- Miracle of the Sun
- National Shrine of Saint Joseph (De Pere, Wisconsin)
- Nativity of Jesus
- Novena to Saint Joseph
- Oblates of St. Joseph
- Ordo Rachelis
- Pontifical College Josephinum
- Prayer to Saint Joseph
- Presentation of Jesus
- Quamquam pluries
- Redemptoris custos
- Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth
- Saint Joseph
- Saint Joseph's Day
- Saint Joseph's dreams
- Scapular of Saint Joseph
- St. Joseph's Cathedral
- The Archko Volume
- The Flying House (TV series)
- The Jesus Dynasty
- Thembavani
- Yeshu (TV series)