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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"medieval lyric"”.
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Women’s Voices in a Fourteenth-Century Chansonnier: Representation and Performance in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308
… MS Douce 308, contains over 500 Old French lyrics, many unica, and numerous chansons de femme. Scholars of medieval lyric have associated the female voice with repetition and simplicity, but I demonstrate that representations of women in the Douce 308 lyrics instead bend formal conventions …
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La Tavola Ritonda tra intrattenimento ed enciclopedismo
… compilation, in the outline of the Italian medieval literature. The Prose Tristan achieved for the first time the merging of the Arthurian world with the legend of Tristan and Iseult and it quickly became a very successful work. This is the reason why, by the end of the 13th century, the …
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The Spirit of Exemplarity: The Role of Example in Lyric Studies
Recent work in lyric studies has been dominated by two opposing camps: the historicism of the ‘New Lyric Studies’ and the attempt to defend a trans-historical category of lyric, most notably by Jonathan Culler. This thesis begins by claiming that these two camps have something in common: their …
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Star-struck, lovesick, poet-musicians: Troubadours and the cultural significance of music in Medieval society
… troubadour song interacts with other aspects medieval culture. The first aspect of medieval culture that has bearing on the musical nature of troubadour song is the knowledge organizational scheme known as the seven liberal arts. The definitions of music and poetry found in treatises on the …
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Marian Devotion Through Music, Lyric, and Miracle Narrative in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
… century. This thesis shows not just that music, lyric, and narrative converge in the cantigas de miragro (miracle songs), but that it is specifically the form that allows the melody of the refrain to connect the moral of the song, expressed lyrically during the refrain, to the miracle narrative …