Performing medieval text / edited by Ardis Butterfield, Henry Hope and Pauline Souleau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butterfield, Ardis, editor.

Hope, Henry, 1986- editor.

Souleau, Pauline, 1985- editor.

Modern Humanities Research Association, issuing body.

Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

Series:

Legenda (General series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Medieval.

Civilization, Medieval.

Performative (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

viii, 217 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Legenda, an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2017.

Summary:

"Texts of different kinds grant insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages: epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and music; liturgical rites and ceremonial manuals; manuscripts, illuminations, modern adaptations and editions, and many more. Adopting a range of disciplinary perspectives--literary studies, liturgical studies, and musicology--this collection of essays reveals the two-fold performative nature of such texts: they document, mediate, or prefigure acts of performance, while at the same time taking on performative roles themselves by generating additional layers of meaning. Focussing on acts, authors, and performative processes of reception, the contributors demonstrate the significance of the performative to the culture and study of the High and Late Middle Ages (c.1000-1500), from troubadour songs and Minnesang to motets, from the biblical figure of Job to Christine de Pizan and Dante, from Scandinavia to Béarn and Imperial Augsburg."--Publisher's web page, viewed 2/27/18

Contents:

Performing manuscripts / Elizabeth Eva Leach

Why Job was not a musician : patron saints of music and musicians in the Middle Ages / Franz Körndle

Giving voice to Samson and Delilah : troubadour and monastic songs of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Catherine Lèglu

Tíđ, tíđindi : Skaldic verse as performance event / Annemari Ferreira

The Austinian performance utterance and the Thomistic doctrine of the sacraments / Matthew Cheung Salisbury

Dante's purgatory and liturgical performance / Jennifer Rushworth

Ambiguous author portraits in Christine de Pizan's compilation manuscript, British Library, Harley MS 4431 / Charlotte E. Cooper

Performing self and (self- )representations : Froissart's identities in Le voyage en Béarn and in Alexandre Dumas's novels / Pauline Souleau

"Advenisti desiderabilis" : Emperor Charles V as the saviour of true faith / Moritz Kelber

Monophonic song in motets : performing quoted material and performing quotation / Matthew P. Thomson

Performing Minnesang : editing "Loybere risen" / Henry Hope.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

ISBN:

9781910887134

1910887137

9781781883785

1781883785

OCLC:

1022587288