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Clifford Flanigan

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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
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Charles Clifford Flanigan grew up as an only child in Baltimore, Maryland, in a family descended from German and Irish immigrants. He graduated from
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Flanigan was a gifted teacher. After his unexpected and early death, his students and colleagues organized two symposia in his honor, 1994 in
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Liturgical Drama and Dramatic Liturgy. A Study of the Quem queritis Easter Dialogue and its Cultic Context
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a year early, at the age of 16. Seeking to become a Lutheran pastor, he began theological studies at
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Claus Clüver, In Memoriam C. Clifford Flanigan, 2 August 1941 – 27 October 1993, in:
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Liturgy and the Arts in the Middle Ages. Studies in Honour of C. Clifford Flanigan
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He was awarded the Frederick Lieberman Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1987.
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Papers by and for C. Clifford Flanigan: The Ritual Life of Medieval Europe
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and feasts in a private manner and also by visiting Catholic churches.
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Clüver, In Memoriam C. Clifford Flanigan (as cited above), p. 25.
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Clüver, In Memoriam C. Clifford Flanigan (as cited above), p. 23.
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The Roman Rite and the Origins of the Liturgical Drama
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Baltimore City College
Concordia College
Bronxville
Concordia Senior College
Fort Wayne
Concordia Seminary
St. Louis
liturgical year
saints' days
Comparative Literature
Washington University in St. Louis
Indiana University Bloomington
Medieval Academy of America
Bloomington
Kalamazoo
Critical Theory
dramaturg
director
actor
Passion Play
Carmina Burana
Categories
1941 births
1993 deaths
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
Historians of theatre
Dramaturges
American medievalists
Baltimore City College alumni

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