GESTIKA V RANĚ NOVOVĚKÉM HERECTVÍ (A KAZATELSTVÍ?)

• Authors: Jacková Magdalena

Title variants

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Gestures in Early Modern acting (and preaching?)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

The performative aspect – delivery – was considered a crucial, if not the most important, component of rhetoric already in antiquity. This was undoubtedly also true for early modern homiletics. However, this aspect of sermons remains virtually unknown today, primarily because it could not be recorded in its time. Apart from visual representation, we must therefore rely on theoretical works whose authors, at least to some extent, addressed the performative form of preaching. These include both classical works, which served as the primary sources of inspiration in the early modern period, and contemporary studies. This paper aims to provide an overview, based on selected works, of the types of gestures preachers may have used during this period and the principles and rules that guided them. The starting point is Institutio oratoria by Marcus Fabius Quintilian, who, alongside Cicero, is regarded as the foremost authority in rhetoric, as well as two works by Jesuit authors: Joseph de Jouvancy’s De ratione discendi et docendi and Franz Lang’s poetics Dissertatio de actione scenica.

Keywords

EN

BAROQUE GESTURE; HOMILETICS; RHETORICAL THEORY; RHETORIC; MODERN RHETORIC

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 150 – 161

Contributors

author

Jacková Magdalena

• Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 1420/3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8945-2622

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2025.72.2.5