Performative Literary Culture : : Literary Associations and the World of Learning, 1200-1700.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history 347
• Author: van Dixhoorn, Arjan.
• TeilnehmendeR: Speakman Sutch, Susie.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history 347
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (454 pages)

"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 audience...

Table of Contents

• Preface ix
• List of illustrations xiv
• Notes on contributors xv
• 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.