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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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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Editor’s Introduction
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The Nature and Limits of the Human: Voice and Language
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The Social Body: Voice, Authority, and Community
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Rhetoric and Subjectivity: Polyphonic Voices
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Aesthetic Experiences: Representations of Human and Divine Voices
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Reviews
“No period of Western culture was more attuned to the modalities and urgencies of voice than the Middle Ages. Irit Ruth Kleiman is to be congratulated for bringing a remarkable range of scholars and their subjects together into this imaginative, learned, and impressively coherent collection. Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe makes a major contribution to Medieval Studies, as it does to Sound Studies.” (Nicholas Watson, Professor of English, Harvard University, USA)
“These incisive essays reveal medieval speech's role in creating communities balanced between the divine and animal realms.” (Stephen G. Nichols, James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
About the authors
Andrew Albin, Fordham University, USA Hélène Bernier-Farella, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France Ghislain Casas, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France Marisa Galvez, Stanford University, USA Cédric Giraud, University of Lorraine, France University of Groningen, Netherlands Bruno Lemesle, University of Burgundy, France Andreea Marculescu, University of California, Irvine, USA Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago, USA Matthew G. Shoaf, Ursinus College, USA Robert Stanton, Boston College, USA Anna Zayaruznaya, Yale University, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe
Editors: Irit Ruth Kleiman
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-39706-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39705-8Published: 30 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39706-5Published: 30 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 264
Topics: Medieval Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, History of Medieval Europe, European Literature, Classical and Antique Literature