Medieval Lyric
Subtitle: GENRES IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT (Illinois Medieval Studies)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: March 20, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780252025365
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Poetry & poets; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Medieval Literature - History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Medieval; Poetry; History / Medieval; General; History and criticism; Lyric poetry; Poetry, Medieval
First sentence: The image of a dancing woman which serves as the frontispiece of this volume comes from an eleventh-century collection of prose passages intended to be sung during Mass at the Abbey of Saint-Martial in Limoges.