Political poems and subversive songs: the circulation of 'public poetry' in the Later Medieval Low Countries

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Present eternity : quests of temporality in the literary production of the "extrême contemporain" in France (The Writings of Dominique Fourcade and Emmanuel Hocquard)

The term \uab extr\ueame contemporain \ubb is an expression currently used by scholars to indicate the French literary production of the last 20 years. This term was used in a work of literature for the first time by the French poet Dominique Fourcade in 1986 (\uc9l\ue9gie L apostrophe E.C.) in reference to an epoch, but also to a new sense of experiencing time and space in the so-called \uab age of digital reproducibility \ubb. The aim of this paper is to consider how the change in temporal protocols due to the triumph of Big Optics (Paul Virilio) affects the sense of teleology (destiny) and the quest for experience in French contemporary poetry (in particular, in the genre of the elegy). Including both memory and anticipation, the \uab extr\ueame contemporain \ubb production seems to prefer the \u201ctime of now\u201d, Jetz-zeit in Benjamin\u2019s words, to past or testimony, and speaks to the present, whose responsibility is to give voice to a space where everything is simply allowed to happen

Reclaiming the Common Sphere of the City

Due to a lack of documents, especially when compared to the sources available for Italy, little is known about the early political and social history of the Flemish towns. For the later Middle Ages we are far better informed on the frequent social and political struggles that characterised the vibrant but tumultuous Flemish urban landscape. The early days of this “rebellious tradition” and the important role of communal popular politics in medieval Flanders in general, however, have been negl..

‘A blabbermouth can barely control his tongue :’ Political poems, songs and prophecies in the Low Countries (Fifteenth – Sixteenth Centuries)

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Political songs and memories of rebellion in the later medieval Low Countries

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Communes and conflict : urban rebellion in Late Medieval Flanders

In Communes and Conflict, Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers explore the urban rebellions that regularly erupted in Flanders between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. They analyse not only how these rebellions were sparked and repressed, but also how they shaped the culture and identity of Flemish townspeople. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical methods and concepts, including those of discourse analysis, semiotics, speech acts, collective memory and material cultural studies, the authors return to key Marxist questions on ideology, labour and class interest to map the perspectives of the rebels, the urban patriciate and the Flemish and Burgundian nobility

'A Bad Chicken was Brooding': subversive speech in Late Medieval Flanders

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Reclaiming the common sphere of the city. The revival of the Bruges commune in the late thirteenth century

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