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French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater (Hardcover)
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French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater (Hardcover)
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This book revives what was unique, strange and exciting about the
variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French
kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth
of visual artifacts and practices to explore this tradition of late
medieval performance located not in 'theaters' but in churches,
courts, and city streets and squares. By stressing the
theatricality rather than the realism of fifteenth-century visual
culture and the spectacular rather than the devotional nature of
its effects, she offers a new way of thinking about late medieval
representation and spectatorship. She shows how images that
ostensibly document medieval performance instead revise its
characteristic features to conform to a playgoing experience that
was associated with classical antiquity. This retrospective vision
of the late medieval performance tradition contributed to its
demise in sixteenth-century France and promoted assumptions about
medieval theater that continue to inform the contemporary
disciplines of art and theater history.
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