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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early Drama, Art, and MusicPublisher: Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (X, 200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781580443555
  • 9781501512926
  • 9781501513121
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 872.04 23
LOC classification:
  • PA8485.C497 M43 2020eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it "an impressively learned discussion" and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.
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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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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 the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it "an impressively learned discussion" and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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