Dante’s reception in German literature: a question of performance?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content VII
3. Medieval Culture ‘betwixt and between’: An introduction 1
4. I. ‘Präsenzeffekte’: Performative presence in ritual acts of remembrance
5. Performing the Penitential Psalms in the Middle Ages 15
6. ‘Remember me in your prayers’ 39
7. Performing Parliament in the Rotuli Parliamentorum 61
8. II. Performing the self: Constructions of authorial identity
9. Scurrilitas: Sex, magic, and the performance of fictionality in Anselm of Besate’s Rhetorimachia 101
10. Authorship and performance in Dante’s Vita nova 125
11. Paradoxes of performance: Autobiography in the songs of Hugo von Montfort and Oswald von Wolkenstein 143
12. Performative desires: Sereni’s re-staging of Dante and Petrarch 165
13. III. Embodied voice: Reading and re-reading
14. Singing Sweetly to the Virgin: Josquin’s Inviolata 199
15. Re-presenting set-piece description in the courtly romance: Hartmann’s adaptation of Chrétien’s Erec et Enide. 221
16. ‘Ich pin der haid Aristotiles. ein exempel nemend des’: Performing Aristotle’s lessons 245
17. Dante’s reception in German literature: a question of performance? 277
18. Backmatter 299