Performance and transformation
Subtitle: new approaches to late medieval spirituality
By: edited by Mary A. Suydam and Joanna E. Ziegler.
Contributors: Suydam, Mary A., 1951-; Ziegler, Joanna E.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Spirituality -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Feminist theology.; Theater -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Description: Performance and Transformation pushes the frontiers of interpretation on mystical and ecstatic writings of the later Middle Ages to explore them as particular performances. The noteworthy contributors examine mysticism and spirituality from multiple performance perspectives: dramatic, kinesthetic, linguistic, and spatial.

Emerging from recent work on ritual, performance, mysticism, and the body, the authors offer new ways of analyzing these performances and their evolution by the various modes through which they were conveyed. The emphasis on the agency of women in conveying and constructing ritual makes this work a rare find among studies of its kind.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.