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Book SynopsisPerformative literary culture emerged as a set of practices that shaped production and distribution of learning in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, both in Latin and the vernacular. Performative literary culture encompasses the plays, songs, and poetry performed for live audiences in (semi-)public spaces and the organizations championing performative literature through meetings and events. These organizations included chambers of rhetoric, confraternities of the Puy, joyous companies, guilds of Meistersingers, the Consistory of Joyful Knowledge, academies, companies of the Basoche and Inns of Court, and the institutions or people organizing the Spanish justas. Written by a team of experts, the contributions in this book explore how performative literary cultures shaped the exchange of public learning, knowledge, and ideas between the oral, theatrical, and literary spheres. Contributors include: Francisco J. Álvarez, Adrian Armstrong, Gabriele Ball , Anita Boele, Cynthia J. Brown, Susanna de Beer, Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, Ignacio García Aguilar, Laura Kendrick, Samuel Mareel, Inmaculada Osuna, Bart Ramakers, Dylan Reid, Catrien Santing, Susie Speakman Sutch, and Arjan van Dixhoorn.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Arjan van Dixhoorn Part 1: Institutions of Performative Literary Culture 2 Formal Inscriptions of Performance Adrian Armstrong, Cynthia J. Brown, Samuel Mareel and Bart Ramakers 3 ‘To Speak Well and Prudently’: Literary Associations and Civic Corporate Culture Dylan Reid 4 Benefits of Joyfulness: Ideas into Practice Susanna de Beer, Catrien Santing and Arjan van Dixhoorn 5 Careers: The Role of Literary Exercise Arjan van Dixhoorn with the collaboration of Ignacio García Aguilar, Francisco J. Álvarez and Inmaculada Osuna 6 Transformations: The Rise of New Institutions Arjan van Dixhoorn and Gabriele Ball Part 2: Individual Careers 7 Performative Practices in Eustache Deschamps’ Occasional Verse Laura Kendrick 8 Pervasive Performance in the Work of Jean Molinet Adrian Armstrong 9 Luis de Milán: Performativity at Court Francisco J. Álvarez 10 Jan de Baertmakere Alias Smeken and Urban Festive Culture Samuel Mareel and Susie Speakman Sutch 11 The Jovial Mode of Konrad Celtis Catrien Santing 12 Pierre Gringore: Interpreter of Sixteenth-Century French Performative Literary Culture Cynthia J. Brown 13 Jacques Sireulde: The Handsome Usher Dylan Reid 14 Louris Jansz: Sixteenth-Century Rhetorician Anita Boele 15 Be Who Thou Art: The Vernacular Learning of Johan Fruytiers Arjan van Dixhoorn 16 Literary Activities and Theatricality at Leuven University: The Case of Erycius Puteanus Hilde de Ridder-Symoens 17 Lope de Vega: Performativity and Professionalization Ignacio García Aguilar and Inmaculada Osuna 18 Countess Anna Sophia of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Her Concept of ‘Virtue’ Gabriele Ball Bibliography Index
