Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture

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Label

Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture

Statement of responsibility

Almut Suerbaum, Manuele Gragnolati

Contributor

• Suerbaum, Almut
• Gragnolati, Manuele

Editor

• Suerbaum, Almut
• Gragnolati, Manuele

Subject

• Authorship -- History -- To 1500
• Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• Philosophy, Medieval
• Civilization, Medieval

Language

• eng
• eng

Summary

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. It spans European literature from the West (French, German, Italian) to the East (Church Slavonic), vernacular and Latin; it contrasts modes of liturgical meditation in the Western and Eastern Church with secular plays and songs, and it brings together studies on the character of 'voice' in major medieval authors such as Dante with examples of Dante-reception in the early twentieth century.--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DE-B1597

Government publication

other

Language note

In English

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Trends in Medieval Philology
• Open Access e-Books

Series volume

18

Target audience

specialized