Arjan van Dixhoorn, Ph.D. VU Amsterdam (2004), was appointed Hurgronje Professor of the History of Zeeland in the World at Utrecht University (University College Roosevelt at Middelburg) in 2013. He has published on early modern knowledge cultures and public opinion in the Low Countries, in particular on the Dutch-speaking rhetoricians.Susie Speakman Sutch, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley (1983), was a postdoctoral researcher in the History Department at Ghent University. She has published on the contribution of devotional brotherhoods, chambers of rhetoric, book production and translation to urban culture in the Low Countries during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionArjan van DixhoornPart 1: Institutions of Performative Literary Culture2 Formal Inscriptions of PerformanceAdrian Armstrong, Cynthia J. Brown, Samuel Mareel and Bart Ramakers3 ‘To Speak Well and Prudently’: Literary Associations and Civic Corporate CultureDylan Reid4 Benefits of Joyfulness: Ideas into PracticeSusanna de Beer, Catrien Santing and Arjan van Dixhoorn5 Careers: The Role of Literary ExerciseArjan van Dixhoorn with the collaboration of Ignacio García Aguilar, Francisco J. Álvarez and Inmaculada Osuna6 Transformations: The Rise of New InstitutionsArjan van Dixhoorn and Gabriele BallPart 2: Individual Careers7 Performative Practices in Eustache Deschamps’ Occasional VerseLaura Kendrick8 Pervasive Performance in the Work of Jean MolinetAdrian Armstrong9 Luis de Milán: Performativity at CourtFrancisco J. Álvarez10 Jan de Baertmakere Alias Smeken and Urban Festive CultureSamuel Mareel and Susie Speakman Sutch11 The Jovial Mode of Konrad CeltisCatrien Santing12 Pierre Gringore: Interpreter of Sixteenth-Century French Performative Literary CultureCynthia J. Brown13 Jacques Sireulde: The Handsome UsherDylan Reid14 Louris Jansz: Sixteenth-Century RhetoricianAnita Boele15 Be Who Thou Art: The Vernacular Learning of Johan FruytiersArjan van Dixhoorn16 Literary Activities and Theatricality at Leuven University: The Case of Erycius PuteanusHilde de Ridder-Symoens17 Lope de Vega: Performativity and ProfessionalizationIgnacio García Aguilar and Inmaculada Osuna18 Countess Anna Sophia of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Her Concept of ‘Virtue’Gabriele BallBibliographyIndex