Female Performance and Spectatorship in a Medieval Nunnery

The Elevatio and Visitatio Sepulchri of Barking Abbey in Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80270-241-5
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Early Social Performance

This volume focuses on female participation—as performers, scribes, composers, and patrons—in ceremonial performances at Barking Abbey, east of London, in the late Middle Ages and in 21st-century revival.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blanc, Aurélie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Medieval Spectators and Participants in the Barking Abbey Elevatio and Visitatio sepulchri

Chapter 2. Contemporary Spectators and Participants: Performing the Barking Abbey Ceremonies in 2018

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Blanc, Aurélie
Aurélie Blanc is a lecturer at the University of Fribourg. Her research on convent drama was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2018 she was awarded the Dobson scholarship.