Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: June 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780804732017
Subjects: Cultural studies; Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600); The Arts: General Issues; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Music; Medieval Music; Philosophy And Esthetics Of Music; Music/Songbooks; Europe; History & Criticism - General; Medieval; Music / History & Criticism; Body, Human, in music; 500-1400; Body, Human, in literature; Philosophy and aesthetics
First sentence: 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.