@book{publication-6607,
  year = {2026},
  issn = {1082-9636},
  volume = {56},
  number = {1},
  url = {https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/issue/56/1},
  title = {Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Rethinking Lyric Communities in Premodern Worlds},
  editor = {Francesco Giusti and Laura Banella and Nicolas Longinotti},
  month = {jan},
  abstract = {Taking the idea of lyric communities as both a critical question and a heuristic tool, this special issue of JMEMS explores how lyric poetry facilitated and shaped the formation of different kinds of community in Europe and Western Asia during the premodern era, engaging poetic filiation, social positioning, political grouping, religious bonding, affective engagement, and spiritual connection. Featuring contributions on Arabic, Occitan, Italian, English, French, Hebrew, and Persian poetry, the articles interrogate relationships between social groups and practices of writing, reading, performing, collecting, rewriting, and interpreting lyric poetry. The introductory essay highlights three pairs of dialectical tensions that arise in the relationships between lyric poetry as a social practice and community formation within the wider social space: mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, local and translocal dimensions, and the dynamics of competition and cooperation. These recurring tensions across literary traditions provide grounds for considering lyric poetry from transhistorical and global perspectives, moving beyond the conventional divide in current lyric studies between historicist and transhistoricist approaches. Conversely, the modes of production, circulation, and reception of lyric poetry provide an ideal opportunity to reconsider the premodern era across different regions, cultures, and epochs.

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Rethinking Lyric Communities in Premodern Worlds
Special Issue Editors
Laura Banella, Francesco Giusti, and Nicolas Longinotti
1     Rethinking Lyric Communities in Premodern Worlds
       Francesco Giusti, Laura Banella, and Nicolas Longinotti
17   Construing the Boundaries of Madness in Early Arabic Literature: Majnūn’s Marvelous Poetry
       Allison Kanner-Botan
39   Sordello da Goito and His Fame: Rumors, Politics, and Communities in Thirteenth-Century Europe
       Francesco Feriozzi
59   Lyric (Anti-) Jewishness and Belonging in the Medieval Mediterranean
       Isabelle Levy
85   The Enchanted Ecstasy of Medieval Persian Lyric: Toward a New Theory of Lyric Affect
       Domenico Ingenito
113  “The Glory of the Artichoke”: The Gastronomic Lyrics of Bushāq-i Atʿima (d. ca. 827/1423) between Authorial Intention and Reader Response
        James White
133  Early Modern Lyric Communities and Print Culture
        Virginia Cox
153  What Binds the Dead and the Living beyond Affect? Material and Symbolic Inheritance in Early Modern French Funerary Poetry
        Alice Roullière
175  All Aboard the Storm-Tossed Ship: Sailing toward Fame in Petrarch, Stampa, Spenser, and Cavendish
        Tanya Schmidt Morstein},
  keywords = {Lyrik,Mittelalter,Frühneuzeit,Gemeinschaft,globale Mittelalter,soziale Praxis,Gemeinschaftsbildung,Theorie der Lyrik,globale Lyrik,Lyriktheorie,europäische Lyrik,westasiatische Lyrik,Literaturwissenschaft,Französisch,Italienisch,Okzitanisch,Sprachübergreifend},
}
