The Performance of Self : Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (284 pages)
- The Middle Ages Series .
- The Middle Ages Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- A Note on Citations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Talking Garments -- Chapter 2. Maytime in Late Medieval Courts -- Chapter 3. Joan of Arc and Women's Cross-Dress -- Chapter 4. Chivalric Display and Incognito -- Chapter 5. Wild Doubles in Charivari and Interlude -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
"Crane's consideration of 'court performances' of later fourteenth- and earlier fifteenth-century English and French literature and culture is both polished and erudite, written both deftly and with clarity throughout. A finely crafted and imaginative study."--Paul Strohm, University of Oxford.
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