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Title Acts and texts : performance and ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Laurie Postlewate and Wim Hüsken
Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations
Series Ludus, 1385-0393 ; 8
Ludus ; 8. 1385-0393
Contents The preacher and his audience: Dominican conceptions of the self in the thirteenth century / Dallas G. Denery II -- Public-access patronage: book-presentation from the crowd at a royal presentation / Joyce Coleman -- Eternal Rome and Cola di Rienzo's show of power / Amy Schwarz -- Diversity in unity: Elizabeth's coronation procession / L. Caitlin Jorgensen -- On cushions and chairs: the ritual contruction [sic] of authority in New Spain / Alejandro Cañeque -- Talking pictures: performance on th epage / Adrian P. Tudor -- Medieval literary performance: Gautier de Coinci's Guide for the Perplexed / Kathryn A. Duys -- Privatizing the Conte du Graal: how renaissance printers reformatted Chrétien's public text for private reading / Paul Creamer -- A contract for an early festival book: Sarrasin's Le Roman du Hem (1278) / Nancy Freeman Regalado -- Death slips onto the renaissance stage: Morris dancing, mimed Moors, and nascent rituals in Fletcher and Shakespeare / William E. Engel -- Experimenting with the performance of medieval narrative / Evelyn Birge Vitz & Linda Marie Zaerr -- Ysuet's legacy: women writers and performers in the medieval French romance Ysaÿe le triste / Marilyn Lawrence -- 'A bawdy lecture unto ladies': music speeches at early-modern Oxford / Felicity Henderson
Summary 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 a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Literature, Medieval
Literature, Modern
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Postlewate, Laurie, 1957-
Hüsken, Wim N. M.
ISBN 9781429481205
142948120X
9042021918
9789042021914
9401204314
9789401204316