Overview

Twelve medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including law, literature, and religion address the question: What did it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one - during the Middle Ages? This collection reveals how the philosophy, theology, and aesthetics of the voice inhabit some of the most canonical texts of the Middle Ages.

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Author:   Irit Ruth Kleiman
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   5.502kg
ISBN:  

9781137397058

ISBN 10:   1137397055
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 September 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Editor's Introduction; Irit Ruth Kleiman PART I: THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF THE HUMAN: VOICE AND LANGUAGE 1. Locutio Angelica, or Language without Voice; Ghislain Casas 2. Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles; Robert Stanton PART II: THE SOCIAL BODY: VOICE, AUTHORITY, AND COMMUNITY 3. Ritual Voices and Social Silence: Funerary Lamentations in Byzantium ; Hélène Bernier-Farella 4. Viva voce: Voice and Voicelessness Among Twelfth-Century Clerics ; Bruno Lemesle 5. Abelard and Heloise between Voice and Silence; Babette S. Hellemans PART III: RHETORIC AND SUBJECTIVITY: POLYPHONIC VOICES 6. The Voice of the Unrepentant Crusader: ""Aler m'estuet"" by the Châtelain d'Arras; Marisa Galvez 7. Margery's ""Noyse"" and Distributed Expressivity; Julie Orlemanski 8. The Voice of the Possessed in Late Medieval French Theater; Andreea Marculescu PART IV: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES: REPRESENTATIONSOF HUMAN AND DIVINE VOICES 9. ""Sanz note"" & ""sanz mesure"": Towards a Pre-Modern Aesthetics of the Dirge; Anna Zayaruznaya 10. Listening for canor in Richard Rolle's Melos amoris; Andrew Albin 11. Mary between Voice and Voicelessness: The Latin Meditationes of Bernard de Rosier; Cédric Giraud 12. Picturing the Voiceless in an Age of Visible Speech; Matthew Shoaf Bibliography"

Reviews

No period of Western culture was more attuned to the modalities and urgencies of voice than the Middle Ages. Irit Ruth Kleiman is to be congratulated for bringing a remarkable range of scholars and their subjects together into this imaginative, learned, and impressively coherent collection. Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe makes a major contribution to Medieval Studies, as it does to Sound Studies. - Nicholas Watson, Professor of English, Harvard University, USA These incisive essays reveal medieval speech's role in creating communities balanced between the divine and animal realms. - Stephen G. Nichols, James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Author Information

Andrew Albin, Fordham University, USA Hélène Bernier-Farella, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France Ghislain Casas, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France Marisa Galvez, Stanford University, USA Cédric Giraud, University of Lorraine, France University of Groningen, Netherlands Bruno Lemesle, University of Burgundy, France Andreea Marculescu, University of California, Irvine, USA Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago, USA Matthew G. Shoaf, Ursinus College, USA Robert Stanton, Boston College, USA Anna Zayaruznaya, Yale University, USA

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