Description
Book SynopsisThis unique publication offers fresh perspectives on key manuscript sources of medieval song. In ten chapters, leading experts each treat a single manuscript in detail, offering new findings, essential summaries of each manuscript's contents and historiography, and detailed, accessible analyses of the songs' music and texts.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach; 1. New light on the earliest medieval songbook Sam Barrett; 2. The careful cantor and the Carmina Cantabrigiensia Jeremy Llewellyn; 3. Across divides: Aquitaine's new song and London, British Library, Additional 36881 Rachel May Golden; 4. Wine, women, and song? Reconsidering the Carmina Burana Gundela Bobeth, translated by Henry Hope; 5. An English monastic miscellany: the Reading manuscript of Sumer is icumen in Helen Deeming; 6. Preserving and recycling: functional multiplicity and shifting priorities in the compilation and continued use of London, British Library, Egerton 274 Helen Deeming; 7. Minnesänger, music, miniatures: the Codex Manesse Henry Hope; 8. Writing, performance and devotion in the thirteenth-century motet: the 'La Clayette' manuscript Sean Curran; 9. A courtly compilation: the Douce Chansonnier Elizabeth Eva Leach; 10. Machaut's first single-author compilation Elizabeth Eva Leach; 11. Songs, scattered and gathered Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach.
