Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0002
I. Fenlon
By focusing on the Piazza San Marco, the chapter draws attention to the transformation of civic and religious spaces that took place in Venice between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It argues that the rise of urban culture and the reconfiguration of urban space sought not only to accommodate a growing population, but also to facilitate the emerging conversional theatrics of Church and State, which made use of urban spaces for the purpose of political and religious indoctrination.
{"title":"Venice: The Converted City","authors":"I. Fenlon","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"By focusing on the Piazza San Marco, the chapter draws attention to the transformation of civic and religious spaces that took place in Venice between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It argues that the rise of urban culture and the reconfiguration of urban space sought not only to accommodate a growing population, but also to facilitate the emerging conversional theatrics of Church and State, which made use of urban spaces for the purpose of political and religious indoctrination.","PeriodicalId":367257,"journal":{"name":"Performing Conversion","volume":"187 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117279289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0007
Elke Huwiler
The limits of theatre as a medium for religious indoctrination became an object of exploration, debate, and censorship in the Swiss cities of Zürich, Berne and Lucerne. This chapter addresses how the civil and religious authorities of these cities struggled to control not just the content, but the audience’s interpretations of religious plays in the context of the Reformation.
{"title":"Theatre and Conversion in Early Modern Zürich, Berne and Lucerne","authors":"Elke Huwiler","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The limits of theatre as a medium for religious indoctrination became an object of exploration, debate, and censorship in the Swiss cities of Zürich, Berne and Lucerne. This chapter addresses how the civil and religious authorities of these cities struggled to control not just the content, but the audience’s interpretations of religious plays in the context of the Reformation.","PeriodicalId":367257,"journal":{"name":"Performing Conversion","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115513493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0003
A. Vanhaelen
Amsterdam’s Doolhoven, or labyrinths, constituted recreational spaces that also forged a strong connection between theatricality and a secular conversional experience by drawing on the idea of the labyrinth as an allegory for progression toward spiritual transformation. The chapter explores both the performative and philosophical components of these early modern labyrinths and the deeper meaning of their many ludic tricks.
{"title":"Turnings: Motion and Emotion in the Labyrinths of Early Modern Amsterdam","authors":"A. Vanhaelen","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Amsterdam’s Doolhoven, or labyrinths, constituted recreational spaces that also forged a strong connection between theatricality and a secular conversional experience by drawing on the idea of the labyrinth as an allegory for progression toward spiritual transformation. The chapter explores both the performative and philosophical components of these early modern labyrinths and the deeper meaning of their many ludic tricks.","PeriodicalId":367257,"journal":{"name":"Performing Conversion","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123158939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0001
José R. Jouve Martín, Stephen Wittek
On the morning of 3 February 1631, the people of Lima awoke to discover that their main square had been transformed overnight into an elaborate allegory of the city of Troy. In addition to offering an unprecedented dramatic spectacle, this remarkable feat of civic theatricality provided a fitting metaphor for the multiple transformations experienced by the city in the century that followed its founding by Francisco Pizarro in 1535....
{"title":"Introduction: Conversion, Cities and Theatre in the Early Modern World","authors":"José R. Jouve Martín, Stephen Wittek","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"On the morning of 3 February 1631, the people of Lima awoke to discover that their main square had been transformed overnight into an elaborate allegory of the city of Troy. In addition to offering an unprecedented dramatic spectacle, this remarkable feat of civic theatricality provided a fitting metaphor for the multiple transformations experienced by the city in the century that followed its founding by Francisco Pizarro in 1535....","PeriodicalId":367257,"journal":{"name":"Performing Conversion","volume":"75 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120841708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0004
J. López-Portillo
The interplay between cities, theatricality and conversion becomes manifest in exclusive or semi-private spaces, such as classrooms and private studies. As this chapter illustrates, the rhetorical textbooks of Fernández Salazar sought to train students in the art of Rhetoric by performing didactic dialogues that took place against the background of colonial Mexico. In so doing, the textbooks linked Renaissance humanism to the transformation of urban, social, and religious spaces that followed the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire.
{"title":"Francisco Cervantes de Salazar’s Mexico City in 1554: A Dramaturgy of Conversion","authors":"J. López-Portillo","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The interplay between cities, theatricality and conversion becomes manifest in exclusive or semi-private spaces, such as classrooms and private studies. As this chapter illustrates, the rhetorical textbooks of Fernández Salazar sought to train students in the art of Rhetoric by performing didactic dialogues that took place against the background of colonial Mexico. In so doing, the textbooks linked Renaissance humanism to the transformation of urban, social, and religious spaces that followed the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire.","PeriodicalId":367257,"journal":{"name":"Performing Conversion","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127149934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0005
Stephen Wittek
This chapter begins to build a framework for understanding the relation between conversion and a key structure of early modern thought: theatrical performance. Taking early modern London as a specific focus, the analysis considers the embeddedness of conversional thinking within the city’s concentration of media resources, placing particular emphasis on the ability of theatrical affordances to facilitate creative experimentation and critical examination around received categories of identity. The central text under consideration is Dekker and Middleton’s The Honest Whore, but the analysis is also generally applicable to the theatrical culture and broader media environment of early modern London.
{"title":"Conversional Thinking and the London Stage","authors":"Stephen Wittek","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter begins to build a framework for understanding the relation between conversion and a key structure of early modern thought: theatrical performance. Taking early modern London as a specific focus, the analysis considers the embeddedness of conversional thinking within the city’s concentration of media resources, placing particular emphasis on the ability of theatrical affordances to facilitate creative experimentation and critical examination around received categories of identity. The central text under consideration is Dekker and Middleton’s The Honest Whore, but the analysis is also generally applicable to the theatrical culture and broader media environment of early modern London.","PeriodicalId":367257,"journal":{"name":"Performing Conversion","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122157406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0009
Stephen Wittek
This chapter considers similarities between early modernity and the present era in terms of theatricality and practices of conversion. Examples of conversional practices from the past hundred years include the forced conversion of Aboriginal children in Canadian residential schools, the so-called ‘conversion therapies’ purporting to ‘cure’ LGBTQ people, and the conversions imposed on Jews by entrenched structures of anti-Semitism. In readings of three 21st Century plays that explore these issues, the author emphasizes the unique ability of drama to bring critical analysis and insight to the performative nature of conversional social practices. His study asserts the centrality of dramatic and social performance to the ongoing evolution of conversional phenomena, drawing lines of connection between the theatrical representations explored in the preceding chapters and similar offerings in our own age.
{"title":"Coda: Performing Conversion in an Early Modern Future","authors":"Stephen Wittek","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers similarities between early modernity and the present era in terms of theatricality and practices of conversion. Examples of conversional practices from the past hundred years include the forced conversion of Aboriginal children in Canadian residential schools, the so-called ‘conversion therapies’ purporting to ‘cure’ LGBTQ people, and the conversions imposed on Jews by entrenched structures of anti-Semitism. In readings of three 21st Century plays that explore these issues, the author emphasizes the unique ability of drama to bring critical analysis and insight to the performative nature of conversional social practices. His study asserts the centrality of dramatic and social performance to the ongoing evolution of conversional phenomena, drawing lines of connection between the theatrical representations explored in the preceding chapters and similar offerings in our own age.","PeriodicalId":367257,"journal":{"name":"Performing Conversion","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125238006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0008
Paul Yachnin
In an analysis of Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, this chapter argues that theatre made it possible for people to see that conversion was as much a process of introspection and self-discovery as a series of material transactions that allowed—or forced—human beings into different social, economic, and spiritual states. These transactions were not simply the result of a cynical attempt to turn the tide in pursuit of an unscrupulous benefit (be it social or economic). They were also a way to navigate the processes of conversion itself—the many passageways and alleys that linked the City of God and the Earthly City.
{"title":"Conversional Economies: Thomas Middleton’s Chaste Maid in Cheapside","authors":"Paul Yachnin","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474482721.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"In an analysis of Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, this chapter argues that theatre made it possible for people to see that conversion was as much a process of introspection and self-discovery as a series of material transactions that allowed—or forced—human beings into different social, economic, and spiritual states. These transactions were not simply the result of a cynical attempt to turn the tide in pursuit of an unscrupulous benefit (be it social or economic). They were also a way to navigate the processes of conversion itself—the many passageways and alleys that linked the City of God and the Earthly City.","PeriodicalId":367257,"journal":{"name":"Performing Conversion","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125441481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：