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Performative Literary Culture
Literary Associations and the World of Learning, 1200-1700
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 347
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.
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.
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.
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.
Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Arjan van Dixhoorn
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
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
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
All interested in the literatures, urban cultures, and the festive and ritual cultures of late medieval and early modern Western Europe, and those interested in the intersection of learned and more popular spheres. Keywords: Europe (Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany), performative literature, poetry, theatre, cultural history, intellectual history, literary institutions, literary associations, literary events, late medieval, early modern, 1200-1700.