Hypocrisy, performativity, and the Carolingian pursuit of truth
Courtney M. Booker
By employing the notion of hypocrisy and its association with theatrical acting, this article makes case for a re‐examination Carolingian understanding use artefacts ancient drama. It illuminates how, within culture lacking formal theatre yet highly sensitive to performance self‐fashioning, ceremony comportment, early medieval authors exegetes drew upon such pagan remnants (despite, or perhaps due to, their pejorative connotations) conceptualize frame problems duplicity, dissimulation, hidden sin – that assumed special urgency ‘penitential state’.
Early Medieval Europe