Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Literature and Culture, 1150-1400: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Holsinger, Bruce Wood.
Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Literature and Culture, 1150-1400: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3928A.
- Description
- Patristic tradition regarded music as both carnal and spirtual, capable of evoking a gamut of emotions. Diatribes against musical innovation parallel those against unconventional sexual practices. Holsinger considers musical imagery in KnT, MilT, PrT, and PardT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.