The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler

Thomas Meacham

Published by Medieval Institute Publications 2020

The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University

The Works of Thomas Chaundler

Thomas Meacham

In the series Early Drama, Art, and Music

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513121

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This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no "drama" in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it "an impressively learned discussion" and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.

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Thomas Meacham is Director of the Arts Center and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Lake Superior State University. His research explores unconventional medieval performance practices in addition to contemporary examinations of performativity and gender. He received the June Bennett Larsen Fellowship from the theatre department at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Schallek Award from the Medieval Academy of America in recognition for his dissertation.

Reviews

"This is a genuinely and substantially transformative study that significantly fleshes out what can be known, understood and imagined about the subtle textures of cultural life in fifteenth-century England." (Mishtooni Bose, University of Oxford, in: The Review of English Studies, New Series, 1–3, 2020. doi: 10.1093/res/hgaa067).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Abstract Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction: University Drama Before the Tudor Period Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Performative Ideation and the New Wykehamist Ideal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Devotional Performativity: A Ductus for the Trinity College MS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. Libellus de laudibus duarum civitatum: A Medieval Altercatio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
4. Exchanging Performative Words: Christmas Kings, Epistolary Performance, and Honest Solace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Appendix 1. Textual and Performative Communities of Oxford, Wells, and Exeter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Appendix 2. Performance Spaces at Wells Cathedral Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Appendix 3. The Codicological Implications of All Souls College MS 182 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Appendix 4. Cambridge: Trinity College MS R.14.5 Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Appendix 5. Performative Oxford Letters and Related Material Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197

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Language: English
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Audience: Medievalists, Scholars of Theatre Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 200
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 0
- Coloured Illustrations: 17
Keywords: Thomas Chaundler; Liber apologeticus; Scholasticism; Oxford University; Performance

eBook

Published: January 20, 2020
ISBN: 9781501513121

Hardcover

Published: January 20, 2020
ISBN: 9781580443555