Musical Instruments as Iconographical Artifacts in Medieval Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Boenig, Robert.
Musical Instruments as Iconographical Artifacts in Medieval Poetry
- Published
- Curtis Perry, ed. Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, no. 5 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), pp. 1-15.
- Series
- Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, no. 5.
- Description
- For medieval poets, the "hyperreality of musical instruments" was "more significant" than was their reality. In "Beowulf," the harp signifies Hrothgar's agenda of political conquest and order; in Machaut's "Remedy of Fortune," the "instruments signify the Lady's bounty, the celestial associations of her court, and the displaced sexuality of the collector." In MilT, Nicholas's psaltery is a "surrogate for the female body."
- Contributor
- Perry, Curtis, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.