Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer

by Bruce Holsinger

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0804740585

ISBN13:9780804740586

Release Date:June 2002

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:496 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography History Music

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