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Explores the four levels of medieval allegory (literal, typological, tropological, and anagogical) in the York Cycle, arguing that these epistemological perceptions were not merely scholastic tools but an integral part of social cosmology. Analysis of the literal level demonstrates that these plays were culturally evocative, refuting their common description as didactic impositions. Analysis of the cycle as an extended anagoge explores the ritual level of medieval Yorks self-defining discourse and the ritual compensation for the inability to directly possess Gods Eternity and the cultural past, the central sources of contemporary cultural meanings.
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