Aspects of the performative in medieval culture / edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Almut Suerbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gragnolati, Manuele.

Contributor:

Gragnolati, Manuele.

Suerbaum, Almut.

Series:

Trends in medieval philology ; 18.

Trends in medieval philology, 1612-443X ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Medieval.

Authorship--History--To 1500.

Authorship.

Civilization, Medieval.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, University of Oxford, UK.

Summary:

The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are central to the volume: the role of ritual speech acts; the way in which authorship can be seen as created within medieval texts rather than as a given category; finally, phenomena of voice, created and situated between citation and repetition, especially in forms which appropriate and transform literary tradition. The volume encompasses articles by historians and musicologists as well as literary scholars. It spans European literature from the West (French, German, Italian) to the East (Church Slavonic), vernacular and Latin; it contrasts modes of liturgical meditation in the Western and Eastern Church with secular plays and songs, and it brings together studies on the character of 'voice' in major medieval authors such as Dante with examples of Dante-reception in the early twentieth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Content

Medieval Culture 'betwixt and between': An introduction

I. 'Präsenzeffekte': Performative presence in ritual acts of remembrance

Performing the Penitential Psalms in the Middle Ages

'Remember me in your prayers'

Performing Parliament in the Rotuli Parliamentorum

II. Performing the self: Constructions of authorial identity

Scurrilitas: Sex, magic, and the performance of fictionality in Anselm of Besate's Rhetorimachia

Authorship and performance in Dante's Vita nova

Paradoxes of performance: Autobiography in the songs of Hugo von Montfort and Oswald von Wolkenstein

Performative desires: Sereni's re-staging of Dante and Petrarch

III. Embodied voice: Reading and re-reading

Singing Sweetly to the Virgin: Josquin's Inviolata

Re-presenting set-piece description in the courtly romance: Hartmann's adaptation of Chrétien's Erec et Enide.

'Ich pin der haid Aristotiles. ein exempel nemend des': Performing Aristotle's lessons

Dante's reception in German literature: a question of performance?

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612716041

9781282716049

1282716042

9783110222470

3110222477

OCLC:

630543029

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access