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Acts and Texts - Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Acts and Texts - Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Hardcover)
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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 ideological grounding;
texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance.
Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of
performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we
see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural
delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read
reception of its written text. The current volume of essays
examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the
essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays
represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter:
from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation
processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches,
to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance
and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays
in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of
public performance and the textual origins and subsequent
representation of those performances.
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