Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture

book: Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2010

Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture

Edited by: Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum

Volume 18 in the series Trends in Medieval Philology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110222470

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Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

Topics

Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Content Open Access Download PDF	VII
Medieval Culture ‘betwixt and between’: An introduction Almut Suerbaum and Manuele Gragnolati Open Access Download PDF	1
I. ‘Präsenzeffekte’: Performative presence in ritual acts of remembrance
Performing the Penitential Psalms in the Middle Ages Annie Sutherland Open Access Download PDF	15
‘Remember me in your prayers’ Reading the Church Slavonic Psalter as an act of commemoration C. M. MacRobert Open Access Download PDF	39
Performing Parliament in the Rotuli Parliamentorum Benjamin Thompson Open Access Download PDF	61
II. Performing the self: Constructions of authorial identity
Scurrilitas: Sex, magic, and the performance of fictionality in Anselm of Besate’s Rhetorimachia Monika Otter Open Access Download PDF	101
Authorship and performance in Dante’s Vita nova Manuele Gragnolati Open Access Download PDF	125
Paradoxes of performance: Autobiography in the songs of Hugo von Montfort and Oswald von Wolkenstein Almut Suerbaum Open Access Download PDF	143
Performative desires: Sereni’s re-staging of Dante and Petrarch Francesca Southerden Open Access Download PDF	165
III. Embodied voice: Reading and re-reading
Singing Sweetly to the Virgin: Josquin’s Inviolata Owen Rees Open Access Download PDF	199
Re-presenting set-piece description in the courtly romance: Hartmann’s adaptation of Chrétien’s Erec et Enide. Melanie Florence Open Access Download PDF	221
‘Ich pin der haid Aristotiles. ein exempel nemend des’: Performing Aristotle’s lessons Alastair Matthews Open Access Download PDF	245
Dante’s reception in German literature: a question of performance? Fabian Lampart Open Access Download PDF	277
Backmatter Open Access Download PDF	299

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Medieval Studies), Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 319
Keywords: Performative; Medieval Culture; Medieval Literature

eBook

Published: April 29, 2010
ISBN: 9783110222470

Hardcover

Published: April 19, 2010
ISBN: 9783110222463