This ambitious volume attempts to discuss and contextualize the idea of performance--in both its traditional sense of public reception of embodied or voiced art and a wider sense of "performance as enactment," including rituals, political ceremonies, and visual or textual representations of live performances--in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean.

Arzu Öztürkmen and Evelyn Birge Vitz, eds. Medieval and Early Modern Performance in the Eastern Mediterranean. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 20. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.

From The Medieval Review (TMR). Review by AnnaLinden Weller, Uppsala University