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Series:   Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2025

Lauren Mancia
Lauren Mancia
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Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center City University of New York (CUNY)

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 comprehend it. Written by a medieval historian, the Element explains why historians assume they cannot use reperformance in historical inquiry and why they, in fact, should. The Element employs tools from the discipline of performance studies, which has long grappled with the differences between the archive and the repertoire, between the records of historical performances and the embodied movements, memories, and emotions of the performance itself, which are often deemed unknowable by scholars. It shows how an embodied epistemology is particularly suited to studying certain premodern historical topics, using the example of medieval monasticism. Finally, using the case of performance-lectures given at The Met Cloisters, it shows how using performance as a tool for historical investigation might work.
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Series: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
Online ISBN: 9781009590334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 29 May 2025

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