Susannah Crowder

Performing Women

Gender, Self, and Representation in Late Medieval Metz

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Produktbeschreibung

This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating new approaches to drama, gender and patronage, it offers an original paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 132mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781526106407
• ISBN-10: 152610640X
• Artikelnr.: 52711287

Autorenporträt

Susannah Crowder is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Inhaltsangabe

Family tree of Catherine Baudoche and Catherine Gronnaix Introduction 1 Acting as Catherine: writing the history of female performers 2 'I
Catherine': biography
documentary culture
and public presence 3 Performance and the parish: space
memory
and material devotion 4 Negotiated devotions and performed histories: laywomen in monastic spaces 5 'Call me Claude': female actors
impersonation
and cultural transmission Conclusion Bibliography Index