Arjan van Dixhoorn
University College Roosevelt, Arts and Humanities, Faculty Member
- Civil Society and the Public Sphere, History, Chambers of rhetoric, Dutch Literature, Literary Societies, 17th Century Dutch Republic, and 25 morePublic Opinion, Social History, History of the Low Countries, Communication, Cultural History, Political communication, Early Modern History, Urban History, Jurgen Habermas, Public Space, Early Modern Europe, Political Communication (Communication), Public Sphere, Niklas Luhmann, Orality-Literacy Studies, Early Modern Italy, Public and Political Communication, Public Opinion (Political Science), Public sphere (Communication), Counterpublics, Luhmann's communication theory, Jan Gossaert, Political Science, Philosophy of Science, and Political Philosophyedit
This special issue aims to contribute to the burgeoning field of the social and cultural history of knowledge and the role of literary texts in shaping cultures of knowledge by focusing on the world of the rhetoricians, a movement that... more
This special issue aims to contribute to the burgeoning field of the social and cultural history of knowledge and the role of literary texts in shaping cultures of knowledge by focusing on the world of the rhetoricians, a movement that defined Netherlandish civic culture from the mid-1400s through (at least) the mid-1600s. 1 They constituted a broad (largely lay) coalition of artisans, artists, printers, traders, merchants, clergymen, teachers, officials, patricians, and aristocrats that consciously crafted a vernacular literary culture interested in theology, law, and philosophy, as well as in the liberal and mechanical arts. These people gathered in confraternity-type chambers of rhetoric to feast, converse, compete, and compose and perform poems, songs, and plays. This typically Flemish-Dutch literary culture grew out of local Dutch-language traditions, while incorporating French-language literary practices, genres, techniques, and institutions of the seconde rh etorique during t...
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This special issue aims to contribute to the burgeoning field of the social and cultural history of knowledge and the role of literary texts in shaping cultures of knowledge by focusing on the world of the rhetoricians, a movement that... more
This special issue aims to contribute to the burgeoning field of the social and cultural history of knowledge and the role of literary texts in shaping cultures of knowledge by focusing on the world of the rhetoricians, a movement that defined Netherlandish civic culture from the mid-1400s through (at least) the mid-1600s. 1 They constituted a broad (largely lay) coalition of artisans, artists, printers, traders, merchants, clergymen, teachers, officials, patricians, and aristocrats that consciously crafted a vernacular literary culture interested in theology, law, and philosophy, as well as in the liberal and mechanical arts. These people gathered in confraternity-type chambers of rhetoric to feast, converse, compete, and compose and perform poems, songs, and plays. This typically Flemish-Dutch literary culture grew out of local Dutch-language traditions, while incorporating French-language literary practices, genres, techniques, and institutions of the seconde rh etorique during t...
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A brief poem in Dutch-rhetorician-style (a so called refrein) attached to a tryptich created in 1555 derides the 'terrible death' that abruptly ended the life of the 'eloquent mercurialist' Matthijs vander Straten. With the doors of the... more
A brief poem in Dutch-rhetorician-style (a so called refrein) attached to a tryptich created in 1555 derides the 'terrible death' that abruptly ended the life of the 'eloquent mercurialist' Matthijs vander Straten. With the doors of the tryptich opened, the ensemble of text and scenes from the life of Mary Magdalene, forces the viewer to a remarkable act. Instead of devotional contemplation, he or she is challenged to engage in a 'mercurialist' deed of eloquence: the recitation of an almost psalmic protest against that cruel death. This article reflects on this combination of text and image shaped into one ensemble in its unique context of production and use. A close investigation of artefact and context shows that the ensemble should also be seen as a local expression of a philosophical culture centered in the Scheldt region.
Traditionally, the rise of a formalized academic culture in Europe, that is, of a culture of the arts and sciences practiced in voluntary associations outside the universities, has been traced back to informal assemblies of Italian... more
Traditionally, the rise of a formalized academic culture in Europe, that is, of a culture of the arts and sciences practiced in voluntary associations outside the universities, has been traced back to informal assemblies of Italian humanists in the later fifteenth century. However, throughout the urbanized zones of Western Europe, from Spain in the South to the Low Countries in the North, forms of organized literary sociability preceded the rise of the formal Italian academies in the 1520s, sometimes by as much as two centuries. The study of these older associations, often strongly agonistic and modeled on literary performances in public feasts and private banquets, reveals various organizational clusters typical of certain regions and cultural zones. These clusters, which sometimes interacted with each other, differed significantly in detail, but they had in common that they were formal organizations of (regional) cultures dedicated to the liberal arts (and sciences). Far from the learned associations that furthered erudite work or scholarly training, these organizations were
... Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 1172659. Record Type, journalArticle. Author, Arjan van Dixhoorn [801001946929] - Ghent University Adriaan.vanDixhoorn@UGent.be. Title, De opgeworpen... more
... Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 1172659. Record Type, journalArticle. Author, Arjan van Dixhoorn [801001946929] - Ghent University Adriaan.vanDixhoorn@UGent.be. Title, De opgeworpen rechtbank der publieke opinie. ...
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The Reach of the Republic of Letters Volume 1 ... Brill's Studies in Intellectual History General Editor AJ Vanderjagt, University of Groningen Editorial Board CS Celenza, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore M. Colish,... more
The Reach of the Republic of Letters Volume 1 ... Brill's Studies in Intellectual History General Editor AJ Vanderjagt, University of Groningen Editorial Board CS Celenza, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore M. Colish, Oberlin College JI Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, ...
For the early modern period, historians have primarily looked at institutional forms of education when investigating the intellectual molding of youths. With the exception of the wealthy, their conclusions have often been one-sided.... more
For the early modern period, historians have primarily looked at institutional forms of education when investigating the intellectual molding of youths. With the exception of the wealthy, their conclusions have often been one-sided. However, youths of the middling sort in the Dutch ...