The performance of self : ritual, clothing, and identity during the Hundred Years War / Susan Crane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crane, Susan.

Series:

Middle Ages series.

The Middle Ages series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.

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

Identity (Psychology).

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

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

Costume.

Identity (Psychology)--France--History--To 1500.

Costume--France--History--Medieval, 500-1500.

Ritual--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Ritual.

Ritual--France--History--To 1500.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--1066-1485.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Court and courtiers--History--To 1500.

France--Court and courtiers--History--To 1500.

France.

France--Social life and customs--1328-1600.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9781283890168

128389016X

9780812201703

0812201701

OCLC:

843080228