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The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University
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Table of Contents

Abstract
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction: University Drama Before the Tudor Period
Performative Ideation and the New Wykehamist Ideal
Devotional Performativity: A Ductus for the Trinity College MS
Libellus de Laudibus Duarum Civitatum: A Medieval Altercatio
Exchanging Performative Words: Christmas Kings, Epistolary Performance, and Honest Solace
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Textual and Performative Communities of Oxford, Wells, and Exeter
Appendix 2: Performance Spaces at Wells Cathedral
Appendix 3: The Codicological Implications of the All Souls College MS
Appendix 4: Cambridge: Trinity College MS R.14.5 Illustrations
Appendix 5: Performative Oxford Letters and Related Material
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Thomas Meacham is Director of the Arts Center and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Lake Superior State University. His research explores unconventional medieval performance practices in addition to contemporary examinations of performativity and gender. He received the June Bennett Larsen Fellowship from the theatre department at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Schallek Award from the Medieval Academy of America in recognition for his dissertation.

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"This is a genuinely and substantially transformative study that significantly fleshes out what can be known, understood and imagined about the subtle textures of cultural life in fifteenth-century England." (Mishtooni Bose, University of Oxford, in: The Review of English Studies, New Series, 1-3, 2020. doi: 10.1093/res/hgaa067).

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