Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval English Nunneries

by Anne Bagnall Yardley

What did nuns sing? How did they learn about music? How did the music affect their piety? This book answers these and many other questions about the musical life in English nunneries in the later Middle Ages. Drawing upon a wide range of historical sources, Yardley pieces together a mosaic of nunnery musical life. Formal monastic rules, medieval liturgical manuscripts, records from bishops' visitations to nunneries and other medieval documents provide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403962995
• ISBN13: 9781403962997
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.3"