Did the invention of movable type change the way that the word was perceived in the early modern ... more Did the invention of movable type change the way that the word was perceived in the early modern period? In his groundbreaking essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," the cultural critic Walter Benjamin argued that reproduction drains the image of its aura, by which he means the authority that a work of art obtains from its singularity and its embeddedness in a particular context. The central question in The Aura of the Word in the Early Age of Print (1450-1600) is whether the dissemination of text through print had a similar effect on the status of the word in the early modern period. In this volume, contributors from a variety of fields look at manifestations of the early modern word (in English, French, Latin, Dutch, German and Yiddish) as entities whose significance derived not simply from their semantic meaning but also from their relationship to their material support, to the physical context in which they are located and to the act of writing itself. Rather than viewing printed text as functional and lacking in materiality, contributors focus on how the placement of a text could affect its meaning and significance. The essays also consider the continued vitality of pre-printing-press kinds of text such as the illuminated manuscript; and how new practices, such as the veneration of handwriting, sprung up in the wake of the invention of movable type.
KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Voor vorst en stad : Rederijkersliteratuur en vo... more KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Voor vorst en stad : Rederijkersliteratuur en vorstenfeest in... (2010) Open access. Pagina-navigatie: Main. ...
Did the invention of movable type change the way that the word was perceived in the early modern ... more Did the invention of movable type change the way that the word was perceived in the early modern period? In his groundbreaking essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," the cultural critic Walter Benjamin argued that reproduction drains the image of its aura, by which he means the authority that a work of art obtains from its singularity and its embeddedness in a particular context. The central question in The Aura of the Word in the Early Age of Print (1450-1600) is whether the dissemination of text through print had a similar effect on the status of the word in the early modern period. In this volume, contributors from a variety of fields look at manifestations of the early modern word (in English, French, Latin, Dutch, German and Yiddish) as entities whose significance derived not simply from their semantic meaning but also from their relationship to their material support, to the physical context in which they are located and to the act of writing itself. Rather than viewing printed text as functional and lacking in materiality, contributors focus on how the placement of a text could affect its meaning and significance. The essays also consider the continued vitality of pre-printing-press kinds of text such as the illuminated manuscript; and how new practices, such as the veneration of handwriting, sprung up in the wake of the invention of movable type.
KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Voor vorst en stad : Rederijkersliteratuur en vo... more KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Voor vorst en stad : Rederijkersliteratuur en vorstenfeest in... (2010) Open access. Pagina-navigatie: Main. ...
... Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 925540. R... more ... Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 925540. Record Type, misc. Author, Samuel Mareel [801001751919] - Ghent University Samuel.Mareel@UGent. be. Title, Een literatuurgeschiedenis als zinnespel. Publication Status, published. ...
... Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 359566. R... more ... Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 359566. Record Type, journalArticle. Author, Samuel Mareel [801001751919] - Ghent University. Title, Urban literary propaganda on the battle of Pavia. ...
... Record Details. Record ID, 337111. Record Type, journalArticle. Author, Samuel Mareel [801001... more ... Record Details. Record ID, 337111. Record Type, journalArticle. Author, Samuel Mareel [801001751919] - Ghent University. Title, In word and image - Verbal entry stage in the southern Netherlands in the transition between the Middle Ages and the modern age. ...
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Les nombreuses etudes qui ont ete consacrees durant ces demieres decennies aux Joyeuses Entrees o... more Les nombreuses etudes qui ont ete consacrees durant ces demieres decennies aux Joyeuses Entrees ont bien demontre l'importance de la fete dans leg relations entre prince et sujets a la fin du Moyen Age et au debut des temps modemes. Dans leg anciens Pays-Bas surtout, ...
... Vertaling, inleiding en voortzetting. Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item... more ... Vertaling, inleiding en voortzetting. Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 344605. Record Type, journalArticle. Author, Samuel Mareel [801001751919] - Ghent University. Title, 'Vorstenbeelden tot lering en vermaak'. ...
A fantastic conference on Mary of Burgundy and her time. Have a look at the website for the progr... more A fantastic conference on Mary of Burgundy and her time. Have a look at the website for the program and how to register: https://maryofburgundy2015.wordpress.com
This article investigates the posting of verse texts in late medieval religious spaces and the re... more This article investigates the posting of verse texts in late medieval religious spaces and the reception of this practice by the Reformation. It starts from a short passage from a chronicle by Marcus van Vaernewyck about the disappearance of posted texts in a monastery in Ghent after the iconoclasts had passed through it in the summer of 1566. By confronting this passage with a diverse corpus of sources (verse texts, chronicles, paintings and prints). I look at three aspects of the practice under investigation: (1) the use of walls as a medium for the diffusion of religious texts; (2) the interaction of these texts with the religious spaces in which they were posted, and in particular with other works of art and with rituals; and (3) the possible motives of the iconoclasts to remove and destroy these textual objects.
Starting from a small emblematic artwork made by the Netherlandish poet and visual artist Lucas d... more Starting from a small emblematic artwork made by the Netherlandish poet and visual artist Lucas d’Heere for his friend and colleague Joris Hoefnagel, this essay questions the usefulness of the concept of Dutch literary studies for our understanding of sixteenth-century literature. How valuable is a eld built on the study of literary texts in one particular language to analyse the cultural produc- tion of an era that was particularly international, multilingual and aimed at the in- teraction between different art forms? I advocate an approach to literary texts that is both broad and speci c: at the same time interdisciplinary and attentive to the unique character of the literary text. This approach, I believe, is not only useful in research but in teaching as well. It can also inspire us to consider the career of in- dividuals with a degree in Dutch literature in a different way.
A remarkable characteristic of the Testament Rhetoricael (Rhetorical Testament) (1562) by the Bru... more A remarkable characteristic of the Testament Rhetoricael (Rhetorical Testament) (1562) by the Bruges rhetorician Eduard de Dene, one of the most important collections of lyrical texts to have come down to us from the sixteenth-century Low Countries, is its combination of autobiography and chorography. The author’s persona provides the reader with a, for that time, unusual amount of data about his occupations, character, social world and opinions. Most of this information is provided in the context of an evocation of specific places and spaces in the author’s hometown. In this essay I analyse why, for a mid-sixteenth century Netherlandish author like Eduard De Dene, personal recollections seem to have been triggered in particular by specific urban places and spaces.
This special issue aims to contribute to the burgeoning field of the social and cultural history ... 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 the early fif-teenth century. It would shape vernacular culture in the early modern Dutch-speaking Low Countries. From the 1520s onwards, the rhetoricians came under increasing scrutiny from authorities (because of suspicions of heresy), and from the early seventeenth century on they became increasingly subject to critique from some humanists attacking their festivity, lack of conformity to neo-classicist rhetorical and poetical theory, and exuberant use of hybridised language (a language full of terms of Latin and French origin). However, the deep integration of rhetorical practice in Dutch-speaking culture prevented an easy demise. Instead, the attacks created new internal and external dynamics. 1 Important contributions to the social history of knowledge are: S.
In his Rechtsboek van Den Briel written in 1405 for the Dutch town of Den Briel, Jan Matthijsen, ... more In his Rechtsboek van Den Briel written in 1405 for the Dutch town of Den Briel, Jan Matthijsen, a court clerk, specified what a proper court or deliberation room should look like. " …[T]he courtroom will be made clean inside and filled with paintings and inscribed with good old wise words, from which one can acquire wisdom and cleverness, as one says: to behold is to be aware ". The phrase convincingly illustrates the link, in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries, between law and the visual arts in general, and the use of court room decorations in particular. From town hall decorations depicting the Last Judgement and so-called exempla iustitiae, via the allegory of justice in the figure of a woman and her depiction on frontispieces of books, to the nineteenth-century Palaces of Justice, time and again it becomes clear how the practitioners of law used art and the visual in order to function and reach their ideal: justice.
During the long sixteenth century a media revolution took place that offered unprecedented possib... more During the long sixteenth century a media revolution took place that offered unprecedented possibilities to adopt, express and exchange ideas and opinions, often of a religious nature. Many studies have revealed the importance of media such as script, print, images, theatre, songs, ritual, preaching, rumours, etc. Yet, media, an aspect of early modern communication we fail to grasp due to the institutionalisation of academic disciplines, never function in isolation. A real understanding of how different media interacted and functioned in specific settings is therefore still lacking. In this workshop, we propose to look at the phenomenon of multimediality during the long sixteenth century by focusing on the micro-level of specific multimedia events (or series of events) that took place in an urban setting, such as civic festivals, religious ceremonies, public sermons, urban revolts, executions of heretics and book burnings. The multimedial character may consist of: 1. The combination of different media (oral, scripted and printed announcements) to mobilize people before the event 2. The combination of different media (theatre, songs, preaching, ritual, etc.) to express religious ideas during the event; 3. The combination of different media (printed, handwritten and illustrated pamphlets, book volumes, chronicles, letters, rumours, etc.) after the event to publicize, comment upon and evaluate or rather to prevent further publicity (e.g. official ordinances, the Index). In many cases this dialectic process of action and reaction occasioned broad public discussion and could even result in a 'media hype'. This workshop's presupposition is that the combination and interaction of various media, i.e. multimedia practices, were not only responsible for the wide and varied dissemination of opinions and ideas, but also had an impact on how these opinions and ideas were interpreted by various media consumers and thus shaped new communities of interpretation. We invite proposals of about 500 words on a specific religiously inspired multimedia event or series of events that reflect upon one or more of the following questions:
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