The Basoche in the late Middle Ages: a school of technical savoir-faire

Authors
Publication date 2008
Host editors
  • A. van Dixhoorn
  • S. Speakman Sutch
Book title The reach of the Republic of Letters: literary and learned societies in late medieval and early modern Europe
ISBN
  • 9789004169555
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 168
Pages (from-to) 159-180
Publisher Leiden: Brill
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
Abstract The Basoche of Paris was the professional community of law clerks attached to the Parlement of Paris, created in the fourteenth century. The law clerks had their own specific communal, professional and cultural practices, among which literature and theatre took on a major role. The Basoche influenced the development of theatre in the late Middle Ages very profoundly through its didactic and festive practices.
Document type Chapter
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