Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe [electronic resource] /
Kleiman, Irit Ruth.editor.
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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Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Editor's Introduction                            ; Part I The Nature and Limits of the Human: Voice and Language                                                                    ; 1. Language without Voice: Locutio angelica as a Political Issue                                                                       ; 2. Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles
Part II The Social Body: Voice, Authority, and Community                                                               3. Ritual Voices and Social Silence: Funerary Lamentations in Byzantium                                                                              ; 4. Viva voce : Voice and Voicelessness among Twelfth-Century Clerics                                                                           ; 5. Abelard and Heloise between Voice and Silence
Part III Rhetoric and Subjectivity: Polyphonic Voices                                                            6. The Voice of the Unrepentant Crusader: "Aler m'estuet" by the Ch â telain d'Arras                                                                                           ; 7. Margery's "Noyse" and Distributed Expressivity                                                        ; 8. The Voice of the Possessed in Late Medieval French Theater
Part IV Aesthetic Experiences: Representations of Human and Divine Voices                                                                                9. "Sanz note" & "sanz mesure": Toward a Premodern Aesthetics of the Dirge                                                                                 ; 10. Listening for Canor in Richard Rolle's Melos amoris
11. Mary between Voice and Voicelessness: The Latin Meditationes of Bernard de Rosier                                                                                            12. Voice and Wisdom in Early Italian Art                                                ; Bibliography                   ; Contributors                   ; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature, Medieval.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Europe—History—476-1492.
European literature.
Classical literature.
Medieval Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
History of Medieval Europe.
European Literature.
Classical and Antique Literature.