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Singing the New Song – Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England: The Middle Ages Series

Autor Katherine Zieman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 2008
Singing the New SongLiteracy and Liturgy in Late Medieval EnglandKatherine ZiemanIn Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word. Where previous studies have described how writing comes to supplant oral forms of communication or how it objectifies relations of power formerly transacted through ritual and ceremony, Zieman shifts the critical gaze to the ritual performance of written texts in the liturgy--effectively changing the focus from writing to reading.Beginning with a history of the elementary educational institution known to modern scholars as the "song school," Zieman shows the continued centrality of liturgical and devotional texts to the earliest stages of literacy training and spiritual formation. Originally, these schools were created to provide liturgical training for literate adult performers who had already mastered the grammatical arts. From the late thirteenth century on, however, the attention and resources of both lay and clerical patrons came to be devoted specifically to young boys, centering on their function as choristers. Because choristers needed to be trained before they received instruction in grammar, the liturgical skills of reading and singing took on a different meaning.This shift in priorities, Zieman argues, is paradigmatic of broader cultural changes, in which increased interest in liturgical performance and varying definitions attached to "reading and singing" caused these practices to take on a life of their own, unyoked from their original institutional settings of monastery and cathedral. Unmoored from the context of the choral community, reading and singing developed into discrete, portable skills that could be put to use in a number of contexts, sacred and secular, Latin and vernacular. Ultimately, they would be carried into a wider public sphere, where they would be transformed into public modes of discourse appropriated by vernacular writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland.Katherine Zieman teaches English at the University of Notre Dame.The Middle Ages Series2008 | 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus.ISBN 978-0-8122-4051-1 | Cloth | $59.95s | £39.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0388-2 | Ebook | $59.95s | £39.00 World Rights | Literature, History, ReligionShort copy:In Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word.
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ISBN-13: 9780812240511
ISBN-10: 0812240510
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria The Middle Ages Series


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List of Illustrations Preface Chapter 1. Ex ore infantium: Literacy and Elementary Educational Practices in Late Medieval England Chapter 2. Singing the New Song: Literacy, Clerical Identity, and the Discourse of Choral Community Chapter 3. Legere et non intellegere negligere est: The Politics of Understanding Chapter 4. Extragrammatical Literacies and the Latinity of the Laity Chapter 5. "Pe lomes pat y labore with": Vernacular Poetics, Clergie, and the Repertoire of Reading and Singing in Piers Plowman Chapter 6. Reading, Singing, and Publication in The Canterbury Tales Notes Bibliography Index

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