domenica 27 maggio 2007

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture
by Bruce W. Holsinger
Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, from the musicality of sodomy in twelfth-century polyphony to Chaucer’s representation of pedagogical violence in the Prioress’s Tale, from early Christian writings on the music of the body to the plainchant and poetry of Hildegard of Bingen, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh.
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www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=3201%204058%20

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