"Remembering a Life," 2010

Title

"Remembering a Life," 2010

Identifier

NAHA 2019/916

Date

2010

Description

"Remembering a Life" by Clifford Davidson, 2010. Davidson's childhood spent in Rice County, Minnesota. Touches upon Eklund Lutheran Church, midsummer celebrations, school pranks, cross-country skiing, farming, bullying, mental illness and dysfunctional family life.

Clifford Davidson is Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval Studies in the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. He is the author of From Creation to Doom: The York Cycle of Mystery Plays (1984), Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580 (1991), Deliver Us from Evil: Symbolic Engagement in Early Drama (2004), Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain (2007), and others. He is the editor of The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, (with Pamela King) The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, and (with Peter Happé) The Worlde and the Chylde, and is presently preparing a TEAMS edition of the York Corpus Christi plays. He has published numerous articles in major American and international scholarly journals, and for many years was an editor of Comparative Drama. As director of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project in the Medieval Institute and his involvement with the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, he was an active medievalist with broad interdisciplinary interests in the field. He also served as dramatic director for a number of medieval liturgical dramas.

In 1985, he was named Distinguished Faculty Scholar by his university. Born in Minnesota, Davidson spent his childhood during the Depression and World War II on a farm, and is an army veteran. After receiving his advanced degrees he pursued a vigorous career of teaching, research, and editing. In addition to his extensive work as an editor, he is the author of numerous scholarly books as well as more than a hundred articles published in the U.S. and abroad over the past forty years.
Formerly part of P539.
1 folder

Language

English

Type

Reminiscing

Citation

Davidson, Clifford, “"Remembering a Life," 2010,” Norwegian-American Historical Association, accessed March 29, 2024, https://naha.omeka.net/items/show/2375.