Abstract
The objective of the presented study is to demonstrate the mutual complementarity of the oldest dramatic texts of European Middle-Ages: the Verses on Adam of Ignatius the Deacon and the Descensus Christi from the Book of Cerne. The tragic aspect of the sin (represented in the Verses) and the comic aspect of the salvation share the timespace of the Easter theatrical liturgy, when the visual perception of the drama becomes a preeminent instrument for building the common cultural memory of the medieval Christendom.