Acts and Texts
Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Hardback
361 pages
978-90-420-2191-4 (ISBN)
Description
For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
682 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2191-4 (9789042021914)
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Content
Laurie POSTLEWATE: Introduction
The Power of Performance
Dallas G. DENERY II: The Preacher and His Audience: Dominican Conceptions of the Self in the Thirteenth Century
Joyce COLEMAN: Public-Access Patronage: Book-Presentation from the Crowd at a Royal Procession
Amy SCHWARZ: Eternal Rome and Cola di Rienzo's Show of Power
L. Caitlin JORGENSEN: Diversity in Unity: Elizabeth's Coronation Procession
Alejandro CANEQUE: On Cushions and Chairs: The Ritual Contruction of Authority in New Spain
Performance and the Page
Adrian P. TUDOR: Talking Pictures: Performance on the Page
Kathryn A. DUYS: Medieval Literary Performance: Gautier de Coinci's Guide for the Perplexed
Paul CREAMER: Privatizing the Conte du Graal: How Renaissance Printers Reformatted Chretien's Public Text for Private Reading
Nancy Freeman REGALADO: A Contract for an Early Festival Book: Sarrasin's Le Roman du Hem (1278)
William E. ENGEL: Death Slips Onto the Renaissance Stage: Morris Dancing, Mimed Moors, and Nascent Rituals in Fletcher and Shakespeare
Evelyn BIRGE VITZ & Linda MARIE ZAERR: Experimenting with the Performance of Medieval Narrative
The Performance of Gender
Marilyn LAWRENCE: Yseut's Legacy: Women Writers and Performers in the Medieval French Romance Ysaye le Triste
Felicity HENDERSON: 'A Bawdy Lecture unto Ladies': Music Speeches at Early-Modern Oxford
List of Illustrations
Contributors
The Power of Performance
Dallas G. DENERY II: The Preacher and His Audience: Dominican Conceptions of the Self in the Thirteenth Century
Joyce COLEMAN: Public-Access Patronage: Book-Presentation from the Crowd at a Royal Procession
Amy SCHWARZ: Eternal Rome and Cola di Rienzo's Show of Power
L. Caitlin JORGENSEN: Diversity in Unity: Elizabeth's Coronation Procession
Alejandro CANEQUE: On Cushions and Chairs: The Ritual Contruction of Authority in New Spain
Performance and the Page
Adrian P. TUDOR: Talking Pictures: Performance on the Page
Kathryn A. DUYS: Medieval Literary Performance: Gautier de Coinci's Guide for the Perplexed
Paul CREAMER: Privatizing the Conte du Graal: How Renaissance Printers Reformatted Chretien's Public Text for Private Reading
Nancy Freeman REGALADO: A Contract for an Early Festival Book: Sarrasin's Le Roman du Hem (1278)
William E. ENGEL: Death Slips Onto the Renaissance Stage: Morris Dancing, Mimed Moors, and Nascent Rituals in Fletcher and Shakespeare
Evelyn BIRGE VITZ & Linda MARIE ZAERR: Experimenting with the Performance of Medieval Narrative
The Performance of Gender
Marilyn LAWRENCE: Yseut's Legacy: Women Writers and Performers in the Medieval French Romance Ysaye le Triste
Felicity HENDERSON: 'A Bawdy Lecture unto Ladies': Music Speeches at Early-Modern Oxford
List of Illustrations
Contributors