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

by Bruce Holsinger

Book Overview

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"