Animated Pulpits: On Performative Preaching in Seventeenth-Century Naples

Animated Pulpits: On Performative Preaching in Seventeenth-Century Naples

The article foregrounds a number of cases of performative preaching in Naples under Spanish rule with particular attention to the specific form of competition between preachers and professional actors. In the churches and streets of the city, preaching was ever present, nourished by a mix of theatre...

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Main Author: Teresa Megale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2018-03-01
Series:Journal of Early Modern Studies
Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/7094
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spelling doaj-8f3930637c3e4613ae32efb46998bcd52020-11-25T03:20:05ZengFirenze University PressJournal of Early Modern Studies2279-71492018-03-01710.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-2284018748Animated Pulpits: On Performative Preaching in Seventeenth-Century NaplesTeresa Megale0Laboratorio editoriale OA / Dip. LILSIThe article foregrounds a number of cases of performative preaching in Naples under Spanish rule with particular attention to the specific form of competition between preachers and professional actors. In the churches and streets of the city, preaching was ever present, nourished by a mix of theatre and sacred oratory, a near realisation of the concept of théâtre sur le théâtre. Examples of this phenomenon are to be found in the cultural transformation of certain actors and impresarios into hypocritical, bigoted preachers and the dazzling voice of Giacomo Lubrano, the Jesuit poet, who created the rhetorical machinery of Neapolitan-style preaching.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/7094
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description The article foregrounds a number of cases of performative preaching in Naples under Spanish rule with particular attention to the specific form of competition between preachers and professional actors. In the churches and streets of the city, preaching was ever present, nourished by a mix of theatre and sacred oratory, a near realisation of the concept of théâtre sur le théâtre. Examples of this phenomenon are to be found in the cultural transformation of certain actors and impresarios into hypocritical, bigoted preachers and the dazzling voice of Giacomo Lubrano, the Jesuit poet, who created the rhetorical machinery of Neapolitan-style preaching.
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