Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assu

Richard Leppert boldly examines the social meanings of music as these have been shaped not only by hearing but also by seeing music in performance. His purview

The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female trou

This work presents a thorough historicist account of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical doc

What is medieval religious drama, and what function does it serve in negotiating between the domains of theology and popular life? This book aims to answer thes