Clifford Flanigan
Clifford Flanigan (August 2, 1941 – October 27, 1993) was an American professor of English, medievalist, and theatre historian.
Life and career
Charles Clifford Flanigan grew up as an only child in Baltimore, Maryland, in a family descended from German and Irish immigrants. He graduated from
saints' days and feasts in a private manner and also by visiting Catholic churches.[1]
He began studying
Comparative Literature and Medieval history at Washington University in St. Louis while still at seminary. After deciding against entering the ministry, he enrolled full-time in doctoral studies at Washington University. When, in 1973, he completed his dissertation on the origins of liturgical drama, he was already employed as a junior professor at Indiana University Bloomington's program in Comparative Literature. An article, excerpted from his dissertation, received a prize from the Medieval Academy of America in 1976.[2]
Flanigan was a gifted teacher.Critical Theory to medieval topics.[4]
As a
director, and actor, Flanigan was devoted to staging medieval dramas, for instance the Passion Play from the Carmina Burana, which was performed in Bloomington and New York City. He collaborated on a total of nine such performances.[5]
Selected books written or edited by Flanigan
- The Fleury "Playbook". Essays and Studies, ed. C. Clifford Flanigan, Thomas P. Campbell, Clifford Davidson (Kalamazoo 1985).
- Liturgical Drama and Dramatic Liturgy. A Study of the Quem queritis Easter Dialogue and its Cultic Context (Ann Arbor [Michigan] 1981).
Literature about Flanigan
- Claus Clüver, In Memoriam C. Clifford Flanigan, 2 August 1941 – 27 October 1993, in: Papers by and for C. Clifford Flanigan: The Ritual Life of Medieval Europe, ed. Robert L.A. Clark. Romard 52–53 (2014), p. 23–26, esp. p. 23–25.
- Liturgy and the Arts in the Middle Ages. Studies in Honour of C. Clifford Flanigan, ed. Eva Louise Lillie–Nils Holger Petersen (Copenhagen 1996).
Notes
- ^ Clüver, In Memoriam C. Clifford Flanigan (as cited above), p. 23.
- ^ The Roman Rite and the Origins of the Liturgical Drama, in: University of Toronto Quarterly 43 (1974), p. 263-284.
- ^ He was awarded the Frederick Lieberman Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1987.
- ^ Clüver, In Memoriam C. Clifford Flanigan (as cited above), p. 24.
- ^ Clüver, In Memoriam C. Clifford Flanigan (as cited above), p. 25.
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