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Author Crane, Susan, author.

Title The performance of self : ritual, clothing, and identity during the Hundred Years War / Susan Crane
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series The Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- A Note on Citations -- Introduction -- 1. Talking Garments -- 2. Maytime in Late Medieval Courts -- 3. Joan of Arc and Women's Cross-Dress -- 4. Chivalric Display and Incognito -- 5. Wild Doubles in Charivari and Interlude -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary "Crane's consideration of 'court performances' of later fourteenth- and earlier fifteenth-century English and French literature and culture is both polished and erudite, written both deftly and with clarity throughout. A finely crafted and imaginative study."--Paul Strohm, University of Oxford
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-262) and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Identity (Psychology) -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
Ritual -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 -- Social aspects -- France
Costume -- Great Britain -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
Identity (Psychology) -- France -- History -- To 1500
Ritual -- France -- History -- To 1500
Costume -- France -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Costume -- Medieval
Courts and courtiers
Identity (Psychology)
Manners and customs
Ritual
Social aspects
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056948
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- To 1500
France -- Social life and customs -- 1328-1600. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051502
France -- Court and courtiers -- History -- To 1500
Subject France
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 128389016X
9781283890168
9780812201703
0812201701
0812236580
9780812236583
081221806X
9780812218060