The Performance Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

by Susan Crane and Dina Nayeri

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081221806X
• ISBN13: 9780812218060
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"