Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval England. Proceedings of the 2018 Harlaxton Symposium, Harlaxton Medieval Studies XXX

A fine new copy. 399pp. of text plus 49pp of colour plates (448 PP.). Here are nineteen peer-reviewed essays by leading historians exploring the many ways in which public ceremonies communicated meaning both visibly and audibly in late medieval English life. Dramatic presentation (plays and courtly poems), rituals (the church liturgy), visual display (jousting, royal progresses), social practices (courts and town criers) and varieties of music and song are included, as well as aspects of the social spaces in which display was conducted, and the more literary presentation of certain ideas in illustrated books. The authors of the essays are: Julia Boffey, Sarah Carpenter, Anne Sutton, Nigel Ramsay, Nicholas Orme, Dean Rowland, Joyce Coleman, Pamela King, Robert Edwards, Diana Wyatt, John Harper, Nicola Rice, David Harrap, Lisa Colton, Clive Burgess, Andrew Kirkman, M.T.W. Payne, Ellie Pridgeon, Miriam Gill, Jaclyn Rajsic and Sonja Drimmer. Indexed.