Lustige geesten : Rederijkers in de Noordelijke Nederlanden (1480-1650)

Closely linked, theater and rhetoric underwent a renaissance in Latin scholarly culture and the vernacular world of urbanized Europe from the fifteenth century onwards. Based on research into ideas, (literary) practices and members, Lustige spirits shows that the rhetorician chambers were the Dutch variant of an early modern culture of public eloquence, with the theater as quintessens. Rhetoricians (rhetoriziens) expressed the intellectual and social missions of their chambers in the core concept of rhetoric (rhetorique), which referred to both (utopian) ideals of bourgeoisie and to the applic... Mehr ...