Insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages is granted by a host of texts: liturgical manuals; manuscripts of epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and mu
This book provides the first comprehensive study of the performance of medieval narrative, using examples from England and the Continent and a variety of genres
This is a practical and systematic introduction to all major categories of the ensemble repertory from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The book stresses ba
For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and e
Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is no