The Performance Self
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The Performance of SelfRitual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years WarSusan CraneSuggestive and thought-provoking.--Modern PhilologyCrane builds a strong basis for discussion of a kind of privileged late medieval secularism. The materials she studies are remarkable not only for the striking collocations she produces but for their own inherent fascination, and it is good to have attention directed to them in so focused and timely a way. It is particularly refreshing to have a study of elite activity that is neither idealizing nor reproving.--David Lawton, Washington UniversityCranes 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 OxfordCranes readers cannot fail to be engaged with and fascinated by this books array of late-medieval cultural practices performed by the French and English courtly elite.--SpeculumCrane moves with admirable grace among an array of sources including household accounts, inquisitional records, chronicles, and a wide range of literature. Her interpretive strategies frequently upset received opinion and reverse readers expectations with exciting results. . . . This book definitely breaks new ground and is an important contribution to the study of late medieval culture.--Journal of English and Germanic PhilologySusan Cranes book . . . is a wonderful contribution to the history of bodily display. . . . Erudite, richly detailed, and suggestive, with excellent footnotes, bibliography, and index, this is a gold mine that readers will happily quarry (and extend to other medieval texts and practices) for some time to come.--Medium AevumSusan Crane is Professor of English at Columbia University and author of Gender and Romance in Chaucers Canterbury Tales.The Middle Ages Seri
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