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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827919403321

Autore

Crane Susan

Titolo

The performance of self [[electronic resource] ] : ritual, clothing, and identity during the Hundred Years War / / Susan Crane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002

ISBN

1-283-89016-X

0-8122-0170-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

The Middle Ages series

Disciplina

306/.0941

Soggetti

Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 - Social aspects - Great Britain

Identity (Psychology) - Great Britain - History - To 1500

Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 - Social aspects - France

Costume - Great Britain - History - Medieval, 500-1500

Identity (Psychology) - France - History - To 1500

Costume - France - History - Medieval, 500-1500

Ritual - Great Britain - History - To 1500

Ritual - France - History - To 1500

Great Britain Social life and customs 1066-1485

Great Britain Court and courtiers History To 1500

France Court and courtiers History To 1500

France Social life and customs 1328-1600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- A Note on Citations -- Introduction -- 1. Talking Garments -- 2. Maytime in Late Medieval Courts -- 3. Joan of Arc and Women's Cross-Dress -- 4. Chivalric Display and Incognito -- 5. Wild Doubles in Charivari and Interlude -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes



social performance and, indeed, that performance falsifies the true, inner self. Susan Crane resists the longstanding convictions that medieval rituals were trivial affairs, and that personal identity remained unarticulated until a later period.Focusing on England and France during the Hundred Years War, Crane draws on wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations, chronicles, archaeological evidence, and literature to recover the material as well as the verbal constructions of identity. She seeks intersections between theories of practice and performance that explain how appearances and language connect when courtiers dress as wild men to interrupt a wedding feast, when knights choose crests and badges to supplement their coats of arms, and when Joan of Arc cross-dresses for the court of inquisition after her capture.