Performative Literary Culture

Literary Associations and the World of Learning, 1200-1700
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-44463-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 347, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 776 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Performative literary culture emerged as a set of practices that shaped production and distribution of learning in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, both in Latin and the vernacular. Performative literary culture encompasses the plays, songs, and poetry performed for live audiences in (semi-)public spaces and the organizations championing performative literature through meetings and events. These organizations included chambers of rhetoric, confraternities of the Puy, joyous companies, guilds of Meistersingers, the Consistory of Joyful Knowledge, academies, companies of the Basoche and Inns of Court, and the institutions or people organizing the Spanish justas. Written by a team of experts, the contributions in this book explore how performative literary cultures shaped the exchange of public learning, knowledge, and ideas between the oral, theatrical, and literary spheres.

Contributors include: Francisco J. Álvarez, Adrian Armstrong, Gabriele Ball, Anita Boele, Cynthia J. Brown, Susanna de Beer, Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, Ignacio García Aguilar, Laura Kendrick, Samuel Mareel, Inmaculada Osuna, Bart Ramakers, Dylan Reid, Catrien Santing, Susie Speakman Sutch, and Arjan van Dixhoorn.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dixhoorn, Arjan van

Speakman Sutch, Susie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Arjan van Dixhoorn

Part 1: Institutions of Performative Literary Culture

2 Formal Inscriptions of Performance

Adrian Armstrong, Cynthia J. Brown, Samuel Mareel and Bart Ramakers

3 ‘To Speak Well and Prudently’: Literary Associations and Civic Corporate Culture

Dylan Reid

4 Benefits of Joyfulness: Ideas into Practice

Susanna de Beer, Catrien Santing and Arjan van Dixhoorn

5 Careers: The Role of Literary Exercise

Arjan van Dixhoorn with the collaboration of Ignacio García Aguilar, Francisco J. Álvarez and Inmaculada Osuna

6 Transformations: The Rise of New Institutions

Arjan van Dixhoorn and Gabriele Ball

Part 2: Individual Careers

7 Performative Practices in Eustache Deschamps’ Occasional Verse

Laura Kendrick

8 Pervasive Performance in the Work of Jean Molinet

Adrian Armstrong

9 Luis de Milán: Performativity at Court

Francisco J. Álvarez

10 Jan de Baertmakere Alias Smeken and Urban Festive Culture

Samuel Mareel and Susie Speakman Sutch

11 The Jovial Mode of Konrad Celtis

Catrien Santing

12 Pierre Gringore: Interpreter of Sixteenth-Century French Performative Literary Culture

Cynthia J. Brown

13 Jacques Sireulde: The Handsome Usher

Dylan Reid

14 Louris Jansz: Sixteenth-Century Rhetorician

Anita Boele

15 Be Who Thou Art: The Vernacular Learning of Johan Fruytiers

Arjan van Dixhoorn

16 Literary Activities and Theatricality at Leuven University: The Case of Erycius Puteanus

Hilde de Ridder-Symoens

17 Lope de Vega: Performativity and Professionalization

Ignacio García Aguilar and Inmaculada Osuna

18 Countess Anna Sophia of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Her Concept of ‘Virtue’

Gabriele Ball

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Arjan van Dixhoorn, Ph.D. VU Amsterdam (2004), was appointed Hurgronje Professor of the History of Zeeland in the World at Utrecht University (University College Roosevelt at Middelburg) in 2013. He has published on early modern knowledge cultures and public opinion in the Low Countries, in particular on the Dutch-speaking rhetoricians.

Susie Speakman Sutch, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley (1983), was a postdoctoral researcher in the History Department at Ghent University. She has published on the contribution of devotional brotherhoods, chambers of rhetoric, book production and translation to urban culture in the Low Countries during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.