The Medievalisms of Juridical Performance

Read from Jody Enders, The Medieval Theatre of Cruelty (1999) pages 160-202 and 38-45. (Canvas) *

Then Read from Cummins, History's Great Untold Stories, chapter on the Cadaver Synod, pg. 10-17. (OCRA)

Guest lecture: Michelle Castaneda

Choose a short passage from Enders that suggests a possible framework for thinking about the connections between law and theater (or performance, or drama). Describe what you see as her argument in the passage. Then, given this argument as you  understand it, how might Enders analyze the Cadaver Synod? What new questions might she ask?

*Note that there are a few extra pages in the Enders pdf that you don't have to read, so just check the page numbers.


Speaking of the persistence of performative practices: A medieval university class (1350). Which one are you? Hopefully not the creepy guy at the back ...
From Laurentius de Voltolina - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. 

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