Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance falsifies the true, inner self. Susan Crane resists the longstanding convictions that medie...
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List of Illustrations
Note on Citations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Talking Garments
Chapter 2 Maytime in Late Medieval Courts
Chapter 3 Joan of Arc and Women’s Cross-Dress
Cha...
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Susan Crane is Professor of English at Columbia University and author of Gender and Romance in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
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