Celebration

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)

Organizer Name

Susannah Crowder

Organizer Affiliation

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Presider Name

Susannah Crowder

Paper Title 1

Let's Get Loud: Festivity and Containment in Revivals of the Chester Plays

Presenter 1 Name

Matthew Sergi

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Wellesley College

Paper Title 2

Bogus Bishops and Capering Cuckolds: The Medieval Carnivalesque in Contemporary Celebrations of a Major Saint's Day

Presenter 2 Name

Martin W. Walsh

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Paper Title 3

Two Capons, Twenty Plovers, and a Porpoise to the Property Player: Food at English Parish and Civic Plays

Presenter 3 Name

Ernst Gerhardt

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Laurentian Univ.

Paper Title 4

Performance of Celebratory Graduation Speeches in the Medieval English University

Presenter 4 Name

Thomas Meacham

Presenter 4 Affiliation

LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Paper Title 5

Topography, Celebration, and Performance in Medieval East Anglia

Presenter 5 Name

James Stokes

Presenter 5 Affiliation

Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Start Date

10-5-2013 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1120

Description

How and why did medieval communities come together to honor certain people, objects, places, and ideas? As a category of analysis, celebration explores the fusion of music, liturgy, drama, games, visual culture, material culture, and public ceremony into modes of performance that are historically specific in their practice and records.

Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby