IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1025: Law and Drama in France (13th-16th Centuries)
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | De Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) |
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Organiser: | Jelle Koopmans, Department of French, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
Moderator/Chair: | Jelle Koopmans, Department of French, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
Paper 1025-a | Drama in the Registers of the Officialités in France (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Performance Arts - Drama |
Paper 1025-b | Law and Drama in the Southern Netherlands (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Performance Arts - Drama |
Paper 1025-c | Law and Drama: The Parisian Situation (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Performance Arts - Drama |
Abstract | The legislation on drama, throughout the Middle Ages, has many highly confusing aspects. Local authorities, and Church authorities, continued to finance actors and performances and, at the same time, tried to gain control over public performance, by establishing means of censure or even overtly prohibiting performances. This sessions seek to further investigate the ambiguous position of authorities towards drama and, at the same time, seeks to find out which exact notion of theatricality was held by the normative sources. |