Военная история / The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

Название: The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War
Автор: Susan Crane
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
Год: 2002
Страниц: 284
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 35 MB

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.