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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package 2020
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Meacham, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Early Drama, Art, and Music
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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