Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe [Hardcover]

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.

Editor's Introduction; Irit Ruth Kleiman

PART I: THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF THE HUMAN: VOICE AND LANGUAGE
1. Locutio Angelica, or Language without Voice; Ghislain Casas
2. Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles; Robert Stanton

PART II: THE SOCIAL BODY: VOICE, AUTHORITY, AND COMMUNITY
3. Ritual Voices and Social Silence: Funerary Lamentations in Byzantium ; H?l?ne Bernier-Farella
4. Viva voce: Voice and Voicelessness Among Twelfth-Century Clerics ; Bruno Lemesle
5. Abelard and Heloise between Voice and Silence; Babette S. Hellemans

PART III: RHETORIC AND SUBJECTIVITY: POLYPHONIC VOICES
6. The Voice of the Unrepentant Crusader: "Aler m'estuet" by the Ch?telain d'Arras; Marisa Galvez
7. Margery's "Noyse" and Distributed Expressivity; Julie Orlemanski
8. The Voice of the Possessed in Late Medieval French Theater; Andreea Marculescu

PART IV: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES: REPRESENTATIONS OF HUMAN AND DIVINE VOICES
9. "Sanz note" & "sanz mesure": Towards a Pre-Modern Aesthetics of the Dirge; Anna Zayaruznaya
10. Listening for canor in Richard Rolle's Melos amoris; Andrew Albin
11. Mary between Voice and Voicelessness: The Latin Meditationes of Bernard de Rosier; C?dric Giraud
12. Picturing the Voiceless in an Age of Visible Speech; Matthew Shoaf
Bibliography

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