Pedagogy, Violence, and the Subject of Music: Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale' and the Ideologies of 'Song'
- Author / Editor
- Holsinger, Bruce W.
Pedagogy, Violence, and the Subject of Music: Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale' and the Ideologies of 'Song'
- Published
- New Medieval Literatures 1 (1997): 157-92
- Description
- Both ManT and PrT reflect the violence inherent in medieval teaching of music, especially evident in the role of tactile solmization--through the use of the Guidonian hand--in ecclesiastical tradition. In both, Chaucer suggests that music fuels the violence of the "narrative progression from pedagogy to martyrdom and massacre."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Manciple and His Tale.