Performative Literary Culture

Arjan van Dixhoorn, Ph.D. VU Amsterdam (2004), was appointed Hurgronje Professor of the History of Zeeland in the World at Utrecht University (University College Roosevelt at Middelburg) in 2013. He has published on early modern knowledge cultures and public opinion in the Low Countries, in particular on the Dutch-speaking rhetoricians. Susie Speakman Sutch, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley (1983), was a postdoctoral researcher in the History Department at Ghent University. She has published on the contribution of devotional brotherhoods, chambers of rhetoric, book production and translation to urban culture in the Low Countries during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Preface


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





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Index