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Author Holsinger, Bruce W.

Title Music, body, and desire in medieval culture : Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer / Bruce W. Holsinger.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3845 .H64 2001    Available  ---
Description xviii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Figurae
Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-450) and index.
Contents The resonance of the flesh -- Saint Augustine and the rhythms of embodiment -- Sine Tactu Viri: the musical somatics of Hildegard of Bingen -- Polyphones and sodomites: music and sexual dissidence from Leoninus to Chaucer's pardoner -- The musical body in pain: passion, percussion, and melody in thirteenth-century religious practice -- Musical violence and the pedagogical body: the prioress's tale and the ideologies of "song" -- Orpheus in parts: music, fragmentation, remembrance
Subject Music -- 500-1400 -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music.
Chronological Term 500-1400
Subject Human body in music.
Human body in music.
Human body in literature.
Human body in literature.
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
ISBN 0804732019 cloth acid-free paper
9780804732017 cloth acid-free paper
0804740585 paper acid-free paper
9780804740586 paper acid-free paper