Lustige geesten : rederijkers in de Noordelijke Nederlanden (1480-1650) / Arjan van Dixhoorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixhoorn, Arjan van.

Series:

Rederijkersserie

Language:

Dutch

Subjects (All):

Chambers of rhetoric--Netherlands--History.

Chambers of rhetoric.

Dutch literature--1500-1800--History and criticism.

Dutch literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

[Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

Dutch

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Closely linked, theatre and rhetoric underwent a renaissance in the Latin scholar culture and the vernacular world of urbanized Europe from the fifteenth century onwards. Based on research into ideas, (literary) practices and members, Lustige geesten shows that the rhetoric chambers were the Dutch variant of an early modern culture of public eloquence, with the theatre as quintessence. Rhetoriziens expressed the intellectual and social missions of their chambers in the core concept of rhetoric, which referred to both (utopian) ideals of bourgeoisie and the application of knowledge (conste) in a committed culture. The northern Netherlands (especially Holland and Zeeland) and the southern (especially Flanders and Brabant) formed one rhetoric world of overlapping networks in which international cultural trends were incorporated locally and regionally through an active reading, conversation and discussion culture. The means of public eloquence (writing and staging drama, song, poem) were intended (internally) to shape (in a playful and competitive atmosphere) the minds of young men from wealthy families and middle classes. By organizing (externally) performances in the local party culture and at long-distance rhetorician festivals, rooms functioned as publication centres for their best writers and performers. The rhetoricians thus contributed to the emergence of a vernacular scholar culture and participated in the public debate. Lustige spirits thus shows in which ways the social, institutional and cultural elements of the rhetorician culture determined the social influence of the rhetoricians and their contribution to the emergence of the (northern) Netherlands as a European cultural centre.

Contents:

Inhoudsopgave; Voorwoord

1. In een traditie gevangen: rederijkers in het onderzoek

2. Een literaire netwerksamenleving

3. Organisatieprincipes: literaire corporaties

4. Het menselijk kapitaal: de kamerbroeders

5. De missie: scholen van retorica

6. De uitvoering: meesters en scholieren

7. Media en loopbanen: feesten en publieksschrijvers

8. Strijd om het publieke domein

9. Media en loopbanen: festivals en prijsschrijvers

10. Publicisten en volkstalige geleerden: media,netwerken en loopbanen

11. Lustige geesten: vrolijke welsprekendheid; Bijlagen

Lijst van afkortingen

Noten

Bibliografie

Index

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis--Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-408) and indexes.

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9789048508716

OCLC:

607564200

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089641045