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Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

By Wim H. Sken

Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Drama

Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

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Procession, arguably the most ubiquitous and versatile public performance mode until the seventeenth century, has received little scholarly or theoretical attention. Yet, this form of social behaviour has been so thoroughly naturalised in our accounts of western European history that it merited little comment as a cultural performance choice over many centuries until recently, when a generation of cultural historians using explanatory models from anthropology called attention to the processional mode as a privileged vehicle for articulation in its society. Their analyses, however, tended to focus on the issue of whether processions produced social harmony or reinforced social distinctions, potentially leading to conflict. While such questions are not ignored in this collection of essays, its primary purpose is to reflect upon salient theatrical aspects of processions that may help us understand how in the performance of "moving subjects" they accomplished their often transformative cultural work.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
257
Release Date:
2001-01-01
Publication Date:
2001-01-31
Publisher:
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9042012552
ISBN13:
9789042012554
Weight:
439 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
231 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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