Aspects of the performative in medieval culture /

Aspects of the performative in medieval culture / edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Almut Suerbaum. - 1 online resource (viii, 319 pages) : illustrations - Trends in medieval philology, v. 18 1612-443X ; . - Trends in medieval philology ; v. 18. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Medieval Culture 'betwixt and between': An introduction -- I. 'Pr228;senzeffekte': Performing the Penitential Psalms in the Middle Ages -- 'Remember me in your prayers': Reading the Church Slavonic Psalter as an act of commemoration -- 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 Chr233;tien'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? -- List of abbreviations -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

Open Access

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.


English.

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To 1500


Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Authorship--History--To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Philosophy, Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Authorship.
Civilization, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval--Theory, etc.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Sachtext
Autorschaft
Literatur
Performativität.

Literature.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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