Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition
by Bruce W. Holsinger
First line
The inclusion of a background section focusing on early Christian culture in a book concerned primarily with the high and later Middle Ages carries certain risks, the first and most obvious of which is that of oversight and exclusion.
From the rear cover
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.
The book reveals a sonorous landscape of flesh and bone, pleasure and pain, a medieval world in which erotic desire, sexual practice, torture, flagellation, and even death itself resonated with musical significance and meaning. In its insistence on music as an integral part of the material cultures of the Middle Ages, the book presents a revisionist account of an important aspect of premodern European civilization that will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.
From the jacket flap
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.
The book reveals a sonorous landscape of flesh and bone, pleasure and pain, a medieval world in which erotic desire, sexual practice, torture, flagellation, and even death itself resonated with musical significance and meaning. In its insistence on music as an integral part of the material cultures of the Middle Ages, the book presents a revisionist account of an important aspect of premodern European civilization that will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.
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- Title Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer
- Author Bruce W. Holsinger
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Date 2002-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780804740586 / 0804740585
- Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.06 x 1.09 in (22.96 x 15.39 x 2.77 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Body, Human, in literature, Body, Human - Religious aspects -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00067945
- Dewey Decimal Code 780.902
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2001, Page 196
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