Adud Al Dawla
Alfonso III
Belles Cousines
Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Carolyn Muessig
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Christ Child
Christina Maranci
Daisy Delogu
Danse Macabre
Demarcation Line
Die Figur
Ecce Lignum Crucis
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Erika Fischer-Lichte
Geoffroi De Charny
Glenn Ehrstine
Gospel Pericopes
Guillaume De Digulleville
Helen Swift
historical musicology
illuminated manuscripts analysis
interdisciplinary medieval performance scholarship
Investiture Ceremony
Jehan De
Jennifer Nevile
Jonathan Decter
Late Medieval Devotion
Les Rites De Passage
Mansion Staging
Mary Frohlich
Mary Suydam
Mary's Body
Mary's Womb
Mary’s Body
Mary’s Womb
Medieval Jewish Communities
Medieval Religious Plays
medieval ritual studies
medieval theatre research
Pamela Sheingorn
performative
performative identity
Puer Natus Est Nobis
reading
Rebecca Zorach
religious ceremony symbolism
Religious Plays
Richard K. Emmerson
Shrine Madonna
Term Figura
Yossi Maurey
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754664369
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Oct 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Taking a fresh look at the interconnections between medieval images, texts, theater, and practices of viewing, reading and listening, this explicitly interdisciplinary volume explores various manifestations of performance and meanings of performativity in the Middle Ages. The contributors - from their various perspectives as scholars of art history, religion, history, literary studies, theater studies, music and dance - combine their resources to reassess the complexity of expressions and definitions of medieval performance in a variety of different media. Among the topics considered are interconnections between ritual and theater; dynamics of performative readings of illuminated manuscripts, buildings and sculptures; linguistic performances of identity; performative models of medieval spirituality; social and political spectacles encoded in ceremonies; junctures between spatial configurations of the medieval stage and mnemonic practices used for meditation; performances of late medieval music that raise questions about the issues of historicity, authenticity, and historical correctness in performance; and tensions inherent in the very notion of a medieval dance performance.
Elina Gertsman is Assistant Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, USA. She has written on macabre imagery, and on the relationship between medieval art and drama.
