Embodied Epistemology As Rigorous Historical Method

This Element proposes that, in addition to using traditional historical methodologies, historians need to find extra-textual, embodied ways of understanding the past, in order to more fully understand it. It shows how an embodied epistemology is particularly suited to studying certain premodern historical topics.

List of contents

1. Why this method: A personal introduction; 2. Why do we assume we cannot use performance in historical inquiry?; 3. Why we should use performance in historical inquiry; 4. How embodied epistemology is particularly suited to studying certain historical topics: The example of medieval monasticism; 5. How can we use performance? the case of performance-lectures in the met cloisters; References.

Summary

This Element proposes that, in addition to using traditional historical methodologies, historians need to find extra-textual, embodied ways of understanding the past, in order to more fully understand it. It shows how an embodied epistemology is particularly suited to studying certain premodern historical topics.

Foreword

This Element explains why and how academic historians should use reperformance to do history.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Mancia, Lauren (Brooklyn College Mancia, Lauren (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Mancia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781009590327
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0959032-7
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; History: theory & methods, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Theatre Studies, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Historical research: source documents