TY - BOOK AU - Meacham,Thomas TI - The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler T2 - Early Drama, Art, and Music SN - 9781580443555 AV - PA8485.C497 M43 2020eb U1 - 872.04 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Kalamazoo, MI PB - Medieval Institute Publications KW - Liber apologeticus KW - Oxford University KW - Performance KW - Scholastik KW - Thomas Chaundler KW - HISTORY / Medieval KW - bisacsh KW - Scholasticism N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513121 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501513121 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501513121/original ER -