IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1623: Classical and Medieval Concepts of Learning in the Drama of 16th-Century Dutch Rhetoricians
Thursday 14 July 2005, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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| Organiser: | Femke Hemelaar, Afdeling Middeleeuwen en Renaissance Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Bart Ramakers, Afdeling Nederlands, Fries en Nedersaksisch |
| Paper 1623-a | 'For you are young and wild at heart': Audiences of Late Medieval Dutch Mythological Plays (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Dutch, Mentalities, Performance Art - Drama |
| Paper 1623-b | 'Nequid nimis, dat is te segghen En niet te vele': Terence in the Vernacular as an Example of Moral Education in 16th-Century Antwerp (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Dutch, Mentalities, Performance Art - Drama |
| Paper 1623-c | 'Come all ye artless, take pleasure in learning': Youth, Education, and the Artes Liberales during the Antwerp Landjuweel of 1561 (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Dutch, Mentalities, Performance Art - Drama |
| Abstract | Dutch chambers of rhetoric played an important role in the field of education in the urban society of the Low Countries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The rhetoricians considered their chambers to be civilizing institutions, with drama as the most suitable means for public instruction. While current social, political or religious issues were often raised in these plays, their main purpose was moral instruction. This session will focus on various didactical aspects of the rhetoricians’ drama: the current moral topics, the sources on which the playwrights relied, their primary audience, and the strategies used to increase the possibilities of identification. |