Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture

by Manuele Gragnolati (Editor), Almut Suerbaum (Editor)

Overview

The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are central to the volume:the role of ritual speech acts; the way in which authorship can be seen as created within medieval texts rather than as a given category; finally, phenomena of voice, created and situated between citation and repetition, especially in forms which appropriate and transform literary tradition. The volume encompasses articles by historians and musicologists as well as literary scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110222470
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	04/29/2010
Series:	Trends in Medieval Philology Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	319
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, University of Oxford, UK.

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