Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion

Pettegree, Andrew

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511614613

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“…For another thing, reading as a communal activity -reading aloud -has remained a significant cultural practice (Boyarin, 1992). In a critique and redevelopment of Eisenstein's (1979) classic study of the role of printing presses and books in the Reformation, Pettegree (2005) showed how both processes of reading and of converting to a new faith were public activities involving singing, preaching, drama, and visual images, as well. Furthermore, readers themselves became writers, adding comments or 'marginalia' (Jackson, 2001), perhaps alongside those of others already appearing in book margins (anticipating user tags in digital media), and taking notes for later inclusion in letters.…”

Section: Media Of Three Degreesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Meta-media and meta-communication - Revisiting the concept of genre in the digital media environment

Jensen

2011

MedieKultur

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<p>As analytical categories, genres have traditionally occupied a middle ground – between media as technologies and institutions, on the one hand, and discourses as material and modal forms of expression and interaction, on the other. With digitalization, the very concept of genre is in doubt: is the world wide web, Facebook, or the writing on its walls the genre? This article situat es genre in relation to the concepts of meta-media and meta-communication. First, I characterize the computer and the internet as metamedia, incorporating previous genres of embodied communication as well as mass communication. Second, I describe genres as a variety of meta-communication, which serves to configure communication in the first place. In conclusion, I discuss whether and how a category of meta-genres might help to account for some distinctive features of the digital media environment.</p>

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Section: Media Of Three Degreesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Meta-media and meta-communication - Revisiting the concept of genre in the digital media environment

Jensen

2011

MedieKultur

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“…58 Taylor, Heresy and orthodoxy, p. 188. 67 In 1567 Chesneau entered in collaboration with Jean Talpin, who, like Benoist, had been granted an authorial privilege and Chesneau produced the near majority of Talpin's vernacular output. this remained a dead letter as the Sorbonne repeatedly petitioned the privy council for the printers to be punished and the Bible to be quashed, all to no avail.…”

Section: N I C O L a S C H E S N E A U C A T H O L I C P R I N T E Rmentioning

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Nicolas Chesneau, Catholic Printer in Paris During the French Wars of Religion

Racaut

2009

Hist. J.

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This article explores the activities of Nicolas Chesneau, a Parisian printer active between the beginning of the French Wars of Religion and the League. While printing in the Protestant sphere has received a great deal of historiographical attention, the influence of Catholic printing on opinion forming during the French Wars of Religion remains comparatively misunderstood. Nicolas Chesneau was a militant Catholic printer whose activity responded to commercial and political pressures but also reflects a personal commitment to Catholicism. Evidence drawn from Chesneau's epistles and bibliography reveals personal relationships with authors, other printers, and patrons. Chesneau's production answered growing demand for news and religious instruction for the laity, a phenomenon that is only beginning to be understood. Analysis of his output reveals the influence of the cardinal de Lorraine who was determined to use the vernacular book to pursue his agenda of reform, often in the face of institutional opposition from the crown, the parlement, and the University of Paris. The end of Nicolas Chesneau's career is marked by a shift towards expensive in-folio books that proved to be less profitable than the short in-octavo works that distinguishes his production during the first decade of the French Wars of Religion.

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“…74 It would seem that the Acoleyen was keen to avoid further reprimands in the 1561 festival: hence it instructed its guests not to use the occasion 'to provide an outlet for criticism of orthodox religion'. 75 Regarding the three winning refreins themselves, it is difficult to establish exactly why each took first prize in its particular category. Silvius' volume gives no indication of the criteria used in judging the pieces, and does not single out any of their features as especially praiseworthy.…”

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The Refrein and the Chambers of Rhetoric in the Early Modern Low Countries

Parsons¹,

Jongenelen²

2008

European Medieval Drama

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While the allegorical drama of the Dutch rederijkers has received increasing attention from English-speaking critics, much less attention has been paid to the refreinen that often accompanied the plays on festival occasions. This is despite the fact that the refreins were held in high esteem by the rederijkers themselves, and even regarded as the greatest culmination of their literary principles. To redress this oversight, we offer fresh translations of three of these texts, taken from one of the most noted of the rhetorijckfeesten. This is the first time that these poems have been translated into English.Over the past twenty years or so, English-language scholarship has gained a new appreciation of the vibrant theatrical culture of the rederijkerskamers. These 'chambers of rhetoric' -lay fraternities comprised chiefly of middle-class citizens who styled themselves rederijkers or 'rhetoricians' -proliferated across the cities of the Low Countries in the later Middle Ages. The dramas they produced for civic and religious occasions, and for the contests known as landjuwelen in Brabant and rhetorijckfeesten in Holland and Flanders, have become increasingly familiar to critics working in English. A number of studies have outlined the history and structure of these organisations, from the pioneering work of Georg Kernodle in the 1940s, to a more recent essay-collection edited by Elsa Strietman and Peter Happé.1 The chambers' relationship to wider movements, such as Protestantism, humanism and the devotio moderna, has also been closely documented.2 Perhaps most importantly, a number of good translations have enabled English readers to access the rederijker drama directly. 3Such efforts have succeeded in bringing about a new awareness of the rederijkers among English critics. This can be witnessed in the tendency among some commentators to see English urban drama in the context of its Dutch counterpart, conceiving the two as 'part of a shared culture'. 4 The same awareness is also evident in a recent edition of Everyman, which directly tackles the persistent view that the play is 'thoroughly English in spirit', emphasising its provenance in the Flemish chambers.5 In short, recent scholarship has done much to overturn the older view that 'Holland...had nothing significant' in terms of drama. 6 In the place of this attitude, a fuller understanding of the fertile milieu of the rederijkers has emerged among anglophone critics.However, while this activity is in every respect commendable, it has tended to concentrate fairly narrowly on one aspect of the rederijkers' output. It has focused almost exclusively on the spelen, or stage-plays, produced by the chambers. This has the inevitable but unfortunate effect of marginalising other types of performance associated with the groups. One form of that has been especially overshadowed in English scholarship is the refrein, a variety of rhyming declamation which attained special prominence during the sixteenth century.7 Only a handful of refreinen have

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Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion

Cited by 115 publications

References 29 publications

Meta-media and meta-communication - Revisiting the concept of genre in the digital media environment

Meta-media and meta-communication - Revisiting the concept of genre in the digital media environment

Nicolas Chesneau, Catholic Printer in Paris During the French Wars of Religion

The Refrein and the Chambers of Rhetoric in the Early Modern Low Countries

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