Orality and politics: rhetoric and poetry
- Date
- Friday 7 March 2014
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square, room 124
This seminar will focus on aspects of orality in the world of politics in early modern Italy: performed poetry narrating and commenting on current affairs, traces of the spoken word in political writing, political rhetoric, and public proclamations.
Programme
10:00 Coffee/tea
10:20 Welcome and introduction
10:30-12:30 Session 1. Chair: Serena Ferente, King’s College London
Florence Alazard (Université de Tours), Ahimé, ahi, o: Interjections and Orality in Performed Poetry on Current Affairs during the Italian Wars
Luca Degl’Innocenti (University of Leeds), Paladins and Captains: Chivalric Clichés and Political Propaganda in Early Modern Italian War Poems
Jean-Louis Fournel (Université Paris 8), Presenza e funzioni dell’oralità nella scrittura politica di Machiavelli
14:00-16:00 Session 2. Chair: Filippo de Vivo, Birkbeck
Stephen Milner (University of Manchester), Preparing to Speak: Evidence from Florence
Claire Judde de Larivière (Université de Toulouse), La voce del potere pubblico: comandadori e banditori a Venezia e Murano nel Cinquecento
Maartje van Gelder (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Talk of the Town: Political Speeches, Poems, and Slogans during the 1595 Ducal Election in Venice
The seminar is open to all. There is no charge for attendance but space is limited. To reserve a place or for more information, please contact [email protected].
Programme with abstracts (updated 14 February 2014)