The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War. The Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Crane, Susan.
The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War. The Middle Ages
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
- Physical Description
- 268 pp. : illus.
- Description
- Crane investigates a wide range of cultural rituals, demonstrating how identity was performed in late medieval England and how such performances make meaning and establish identity. She explores the Chaucer coat of arms as self-representation rooted in notions of ancestry; discusses as cultural phenomenon the interplay of marrying, obedience, and re-clothing in ClT; considers depictions of "Maying" as self-representation in LGW; treats the condemnation of elaborate clothing in ParsT; and discusses the courtly spectacle of the brass steed of SqT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Parson and His Tale.
- Squire and His Tale.