Table of Contents
Medieval Culture 'betwixt and between'. An introduction Almut Suerbaum Manuele Gragnolati 1
I 'Präsenzeffekte': Performative presence in ritual acts of remembrance
Performing the Penitential Psalms in the Middle Ages: Maidstone and Bampton Annie Sutherland 15
'Remember me in your prayers': Reading the Church Slavonic Psalter as an act of commemoration C. M. MacRobert 39
Performing Parliament in the Rotuli Parliamentorum Benjamin Thompson 61
II Performing the self: Constructions of authorial identity
Scurrilitas: Sex, magic, rhetoric, and performance of fictionality in Anselm of Besate's Rhetorimachia Monika Otter 101
Authorship and performance in Dante's Vita nova Manuele Gragnolati 125
Paradoxes of performance: Autobiography in the songs of Hugo von Montfort and Oswald von Wolkenstein Almut Suerbaum 143
Performative desires: Sereni's restaging of Dante and Petrarch Francesca Southerden 165
III Embodied voice: Reading and re-reading
Singing to the Virgin and joking with the singers: Josquin's Inviolata Owen Rees 199
Re-presenting set-piece description in the courtly romance: Hartmann's adaptation of Chrétien's Erec et Enide Melanie Florence 221
'Ich pin der haid Aristotiles. ein exemple nemend des': Performing Aristotle's lessons Alastair Matthews 245
Dante's reception in German literature: a question of performance? Fabian Lampart 277
List of abbreviations 299
Selected bibliography 301
Index 315
