The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University : : The Works of Thomas Chaundler / / Thomas Meacham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Meacham, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Early Drama, Art, and Music
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 200 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Abstract --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Introduction: University Drama Before the Tudor Period --; 1. Performative Ideation and the New Wykehamist Ideal --; 2. Devotional Performativity: A Ductus for the Trinity College MS --; 3. Libellus de laudibus duarum civitatum: A Medieval Altercatio --; 4. Exchanging Performative Words: Christmas Kings, Epistolary Performance, and Honest Solace --; Conclusion --; Appendix 1. Textual and Performative Communities of Oxford, Wells, and Exeter --; Appendix 2. Performance Spaces at Wells Cathedral --; Appendix 3. The Codicological Implications of All Souls College MS 182 --; Appendix 4. Cambridge: Trinity College MS R.14.5 Illustrations --; Appendix 5. Performative Oxford Letters and Related Material --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501513121; 9783110696271; 9783110696288; 9783110659061; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704747; 9783110704532
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501513121
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas Meacham.

This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no "drama" in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it "an impressively learned discussion" and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.