Acts and texts : : performance and ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / / edited by Laurie Postlewate and Wim Husken.
For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideologi...
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| Superior document: | Ludus, 8 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ludus ;
8. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Laurie Postlewate
- The Preacher and His Audience: Dominican Conceptions of the Self in the Thirteenth Century / Dallas G. Denery
- Public-Access Patronage: Book-Presentation from the Crowd at a Royal Procession / Joyce Coleman
- Eternal Rome and Cola di Rienzo’s Show of Power / Amy Schwarz
- Diversity in Unity: Elizabeth’s Coronation Procession / L. Caitlin Jorgensen
- On Cushions and Chairs: The Ritual Construction of Authority in New Spain / Alejandro Cañeque
- Talking Pictures: Performance on the Page / Adrian P. Tudor
- Medieval Literary Performance: Gautier de Coinci’s Guide for the Perplexed / Kathryn A. Duys
- Privatizing the Conte du Graal: How Renaissance Printers Reformatted Chrétien’s Public Text for Private Reading / Paul Creamer
- A Contract for an Early Festival Book: Sarrasin’s Le Roman du Hem (1278) / Nancy Freeman Regalado
- Death Slips Onto the Renaissance Stage: Morris Dancing, Mimed Moors, and Nascent Rituals in Fletcher and Shakespeare / William E. Engel
- Experimenting with the Performance of Medieval Narrative / Evelyn Birge Vitz and Linda Marie Zaerr
- Yseut’s Legacy: Women Writers and Performers in the Medieval French Romance Ysaÿe le Triste / Marilyn Lawrence
- ‘A Bawdy Lecture unto Ladies’: Music Speeches at Early-Modern Oxford / Felicity Henderson
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors.