Clifford Flanigan

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Clifford Flanigan (born August 2, 1941 in Baltimore , Maryland , † October 27, 1993 in Bloomington , Indiana ) was an American drama scholar, medievalist and university professor.

Life

Charles Clifford Flanigan grew up as an only child in an American family of German-Irish descent in Baltimore. He graduated from City College High School at the age of 16. Initially, he wanted to be a (Lutheran) minister and began his studies in Bronxville , New York and continued them at Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne , Indiana. He received his master's degree in theology from the Lutheran Concordia Seminary near St. Louis , Missouri in 1967. Although he was a Protestant, he followed the Catholic church year closely, celebrating the celebrations of the Roman calendar in private, but also by attending Catholic liturgies.

While studying theology, he began studying comparative literature and mediaeval studies at Washington University in St. Louis . He decided against the spiritual ordination and became a PhD student at Washington University. When he submitted his dissertation on the origins of the liturgical game in the Latin rite in 1973, he was already employed in the Comparative Literature Program at Indiana University . In 1976, he received an award from the Medieval Academy of America for an essay that resulted from the dissertation .

Flanigan was considered a passionate educator. After his surprisingly early death, his students held two conferences, in Bloomington in 1994 and in Kalamazoo in 1995 . Flanigan's research approach, in which more recent results of critical theory and historical movements (such as the Annales School ) were used, was considered unconventional and progressive by the medievalists in his environment.

He also devoted himself to the staging of medieval plays, such as the Passion Play from the Carmina Burana manuscript, which was performed in Bloomington and New York City. In total, he worked as a dramaturge , actor or director on nine performances.

Books by Flanigan (selection)

  • The Fleury “Playbook”. Essays and Studies , ed. by 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 on 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. by Robert LA Clark. Romard 52–53 (2014), pp. 23–26, here pp. 23–25.
  • Liturgy and the Arts in the Middle Ages. Studies in Honor of C. Clifford Flanigan , ed. by Eva Louise Lillie – Nils Holger Petersen (Copenhagen 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Roman Rite and the Origins of the Liturgical Drama , in: University of Toronto Quarterly 43 (1974), pp. 263-284.
  2. ↑ In 1987 he received the Frederick Lieberman Award for Distinguished Teaching
personal data
SURNAME Flanigan, Clifford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flanigan, Charles Clifford; Flanigan, C. Clifford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American drama scholar, medievalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1993
Place of death Bloomington , Indiana