View source for Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America (NEH Summer Institute)

Directed by '''[[Claire Sponsler]]''', Professor of English at the University of Iowa
 
June 21 through July 23, 2010

This [[NEH_Summer_Institute_for_college_and_university_faculty|NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty]] offered a comparative study of ritual and ceremony across related European cultures from 1300 to 1700. It built on anthropological theories of the ubiquitous role of ritual and ceremony and the impact of that work in performance studies. Testing assumptions about influence and exchange among national traditions and local contexts, it sought a new understanding of the processes and effects of cultural hybridity and assimilation.
[[File:ART Box R763 no.23.jpg|thumb|411x411px|right|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/i7cx0w Source Call Number: ART Box R763 no.23]: Nuoua et essatta pianta del conclaue con le funtioni e ceremonie per l'elettione del nuouo pontefice fatto nella sede vacante…]]

Beginning with an exploration of the theories and definitions of “ritual,” each subsequent session advanced topically, chronologically, and geographically while touching on the implications of ceremony and ritual in religious, domestic, and secular contexts.  Throughout the institute, participants used the Folger’s collections. They first read about ceremonies and liturgical performance through medieval authors including Hildegard of Bingen and Chaucer. Rituals surrounding motherhood and birthing practices, specifically the childbed, were also examined as sites of domestic ritualistic performance. Moving into the civic sphere, the session topics included records of Lord Mayor shows, pageant plays, royal entries, and other public ceremonies. The institute concluded with representations of ceremony on the early modern stage through histories and tragedies, discussions of the materials of ritual, and sites of pilgrimage.  

<u><br>'''Materials and Products'''</u>

The syllabus is available [[Media:Ritual and Ceremony syllabus.pdf|here]].

While the website is no longer supported, it has been archived:
[http://wayback.archive-it.org/2873/20140918232027/http://www.folger.edu/folger_institute/ritual_ceremony/ Institute Website: Ritual and Ceremony]

A PDF of the[[Media:Ceremony.pdf| website's pages]] with the participants' interpretive essays.

A PDF of the original [[Media:NEHRitual&Ceremony.pdf|promotional flyer]].


[[File:STC_20488.jpg|thumb|661x661px|left|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/525anq Source Call Number STC 20488]: Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere du roy tres-Chrestien, dans la Grande-Bretaigne. Enrichie de planches. Par le Sr. de la Serre, Historigraphe de France.]]  

'''<u>Participants</u>'''

(All affiliations are as of the program's date)

<strong>Bernadette Andrea</strong>, Professor of English, University of Texas, San Antonio

<strong>Christopher J. Bilodeau</strong>, Assistant Professor of History, Dickinson College

<strong>Rachel L. Burk</strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University

<strong>Peter Craft</strong>, PhD Candidate in English, University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign

<strong>J. Caitlin Finlayson</strong>, Assistant Professor of English, University of Michigan, Dearborn

<strong>Elina Gertsman</strong>, Assistant Professor of Medieval Art, Case Western Reserve University 

<strong>Marcia B. Hall</strong>, Professor of Art History, Temple University

<strong>Matthew C. Hansen</strong>, Assistant Professor of English, Boise State University

<strong>Kenneth L. Hodges</strong>, Associate Professor of English, University of Oklahoma

<strong>John M. Hunt</strong>, Term Assistant Professor of History, University of Louisville

<strong>Matthew W. Irvin</strong>, Assistant Professor of English, Sewanee The University of the South

<strong>Nancy J. Kay</strong>, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History, Merrimack College

<strong>Andrew D. McCarthy</strong>, Assistant Professor of English, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

<strong>Cynthia Nazarian</strong>, Assistant Professor of French and Italian, Northwestern University

<strong>Patrick O’Banion</strong>, Assistant Professor of History, Lindenwood University

<strong>Stephanie M. Seery-Murphy</strong>, Lecturer in History, California State University, Sacramento

<strong>Christopher Swift</strong>, PhD Candidate in Theatre Studies, City University of New York, Graduate Center

<strong>Lisa Voigt</strong>, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University

<strong>Anne E. Wohlcke</strong>, Assistant Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

<strong>Suzanne M. Yeager</strong>, Assistant Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Fordham University




'''<u>Faculty</u>'''
[[File:Z.e.4_Map_case.jpg|thumb|677x677px|right|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/9sx4a6 Source Call Number Z.e.4 Map case]: St. Stephen's day hymn ]]
(All affiliations are as of the program's date)

<strong>Ian Archer</strong>, Keble College, Oxford

<strong>Lawrence M. Bryant</strong>, California State University, Chico

<strong>Barbara Fuchs</strong>, UCLA

<strong>Gail McMurray Gibson, </strong>Davidson College

<strong>Bruce Holsinger</strong>, University of Virginia

<strong>Roslyn L. Knutson</strong>, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

<strong>Joseph Roach</strong>, Yale University

<strong>Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly</strong>, Exeter College, Oxford

<strong>Michael Wintroub</strong>, University of California Berkeley

<strong>Barbara Wisch</strong>, SUNY Cortland



'''<u>Website Production</u>'''  

<strong>Claire Sponsler</strong>, Advisory Editor  

<strong>Kathleen Lynch</strong>, Editor  

<strong>Owen Williams</strong>, Associate Editor  

<strong>Adrienne Shevchuk</strong>, Production and Managing Editor  

<strong>Allison Isberg</strong>, Editorial Assistant  

<strong>Swim Design</strong>, Design and Development  

<strong>Julie Ainsworth</strong>, Folger Shakespeare Library Photographer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

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'''<u>Folger Institute Staff</u>'''

<strong>David Schalkwyk</strong>, Chair

<strong>Kathleen Lynch</strong>, Executive Director

<strong>Owen Williams</strong>, Assistant Director

<strong>Adrienne Shevchuk</strong>, Program Assistant

<strong>Matthew Carr</strong>, Intern
















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