Discarding Images: Reflections on Music and Culture in Medieval France

by Christopher Page

Book Overview

For many centuries, the Western imagination has pictured the medieval period as a kind of odyssey: a journey that took humankind to a strange country and ended in the Renaissance with its homecoming and the restoration of its inheritance. In this stimulating and provocative book, Christopher Page, Director of the acclaimed early music vocal group Gothic Voices, explores the kinds of generalizations that we habitually make about "the Middle Ages" and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198163460
• ISBN13: 9780198163466
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"