Concepts and Practices of Performance in Medieval European Culture II (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Sarah Brazil; Clare Wright
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. de Genève; Univ. of Kent
Presider Name
Clare Wright
Paper Title 1
Performing Silent Music
Presenter 1 Name
Jessica Brantley
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Yale Univ.
Paper Title 2
Hearing Voices: The Performative Frame of Trouvère Songs
Presenter 2 Name
James Borders
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Paper Title 3
John Lydgate and Late Medieval English Performance Culture
Presenter 3 Name
Mary C. Flannery
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Oxford
Paper Title 4
Monastic Communities/Communication and the Aesthetics of Performance: Defining Characteristics of and in Early Medieval Theater
Presenter 4 Name
Kyle A. Thomas
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Indianapolis
Paper Title 5
Talking with Dead Authors: The Iconography of Performative Writing
Presenter 5 Name
Joyce Coleman
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Univ. of Oklahoma
Paper Title 6
Performance and Self-Making in Old English Devotional Literature
Presenter 6 Name
Kaylin O'Dell
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Suffolk Univ.
Paper Title 7
Discussant
Presenter 7 Name
Carol Symes
Presenter 7 Affiliation
Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Start Date
10-5-2019 3:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 1005
Description
In her recently published introduction to volume 2 of A Cultural History of the Theatre, Jody Enders calls for “a much-needed re-examination of some of the teleologies that have dominated medieval theatre studies” (Enders, 2017). In the Middle Ages, ‘theatre’ was constituted by a network of “heterogenous performance practices” (Enders, 2017) – practices that overlapped and intersected with one another in ways that challenge generic assumptions about “drama” and “performance,” and the critical vocabulary we use to discuss them. In this round table session, participants answer Enders’ call by exploring a range performance events from different perspectives. This interdisciplinary panel comprises researchers interrogating performance from the perspectives of music, iconography and literature, across languages encompassing Old and Middle English, Old and Middle French, and Latin. In doing so, each will consider what ‘performance practice’ might mean in a variety of medieval contexts, what paradigms are at work in these performance events and how they might affect the way modern scholars think about ‘performance’ and its place in medieval European culture more broadly.
Sarah Brazil; Clare Wright
Concepts and Practices of Performance in Medieval European Culture II (A Roundtable)
Fetzer 1005
In her recently published introduction to volume 2 of A Cultural History of the Theatre, Jody Enders calls for “a much-needed re-examination of some of the teleologies that have dominated medieval theatre studies” (Enders, 2017). In the Middle Ages, ‘theatre’ was constituted by a network of “heterogenous performance practices” (Enders, 2017) – practices that overlapped and intersected with one another in ways that challenge generic assumptions about “drama” and “performance,” and the critical vocabulary we use to discuss them. In this round table session, participants answer Enders’ call by exploring a range performance events from different perspectives. This interdisciplinary panel comprises researchers interrogating performance from the perspectives of music, iconography and literature, across languages encompassing Old and Middle English, Old and Middle French, and Latin. In doing so, each will consider what ‘performance practice’ might mean in a variety of medieval contexts, what paradigms are at work in these performance events and how they might affect the way modern scholars think about ‘performance’ and its place in medieval European culture more broadly.
Sarah Brazil; Clare Wright