books.google.com - Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Performance_of_Self.html?id=2st-PkahafIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Performance of Self
