Visualizing Medieval Performance

Perspectives, Histories, Contexts
Herausgeber: Gertsman, Elina

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking a fresh look at the interconnections between medieval images, texts, theater, and practices of viewing, reading and listening, this explicitly interdisciplinary volume explores various manifestations of performance and meanings of performativity in the Middle Ages. The contributors - from their various perspectives as scholars of art history, religion, history, literary studies, theater studies, music and dance - combine their resources to reassess the complexity of expressions and definitions of medieval performance in a variety of different media. Among the topics considered are interconnections between ritual and theater; dynamics of performative readings of illuminated manuscripts, buildings and sculptures; linguistic performances of identity; performative models of medieval spirituality; social and political spectacles encoded in ceremonies; junctures between spatial configurations of the medieval stage and mnemonic practices used for meditation; performances of late medieval music that raise questions about the issues of historicity, authenticity, and historical correctness in performance; and tensions inherent in the very notion of a medieval dance performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9780754664369
• ISBN-10: 0754664368
• Artikelnr.: 44971561

Autorenporträt

Elina Gertsman is Assistant Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, USA. She has written on macabre imagery, and on the relationship between medieval art and drama.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the spectrum of performances
Elina Gertsman; Part I Visual Performance: Word
Image
Body: Performance and church exterior in medieval Armenia
Christina Maranci; Framing the Apocalypse: the performance of John's Life in the Trinity Apocalypse
Richard K. Emmerson; Performing the illustrated manuscript: great reckonings in little books
Pamela Sheingorn; Performing birth
enacting death: unstable bodies in late medieval devotion
Elina Gertsman. Part II Devotional Performance: Preaching
Prayer
Vision: Performing the Gospel stories: Hildegard of Bingen's dramatic exegesis in the Expositiones Euangeliorum
Beverly Mayne Kienzle; Performance of the Passion: the enactment of devotion in the later Middle Ages
Carolyn Muessig; Women's texts and performances in the medieval Southern Low Countries
Mary Suydam; The space of Christic performance: Theresa of Avila through the lens of Michel de Certeau
Mary Frohlich. Part III Social Performance: Identity
Language
Authority: The hidden exilarch: power and performance in a medieval Jewish ceremony
Jonathan Decter; Desire
deception and display: linguistic performance in Jehan de Saintré
Daisy Delogu; Points of tension: performing Je in Jean Bouchet's Jugement Poetic de l'Honneur Femenin (1538)
Helen Swift; 'Taken by night from its tomb': triumph
dissent
and danse macabre in early modern France
Rebecca Zorach. Part IV Lived Performance: Theater
Dance
Music: The medieval religious plays - ritual or theatre?
Erika Fischer-Lichte; Framing the Passion: mansion staging as visual mnemonic
Glenn Ehrstine; Performing our practices: between music and musicology
Yossi Maurey; Dance performance in the late Middle Ages: a contested space
Jennifer Nevile; Bibliography; Index.