Cultures of witnessing : law and the York plays /
"In Cultures of Witnessing, Emma Lipton considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth and shows how civic performance and the legal theory and practice of witnessing promote...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2022]
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| Edition: | 1st edition. |
| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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| Summary: | "In Cultures of Witnessing, Emma Lipton considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth and shows how civic performance and the legal theory and practice of witnessing promoted a shared sense of urban citizenship"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 200 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812253856 081225385X |