Acts and texts : performance and ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Acts and texts : performance and ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Laurie Postlewate and Wim Hüsken.

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 ideologi...

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Other Authors: Postlewate, Laurie, 1957-, Hüsken, Wim N. M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Series:Ludus ; 8.
Subjects:
1400-1599
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 15th and 16th centuries > History and criticism.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature, Medieval
Literature, Modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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