Performing Piety
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Performing Piety

Musical Culture in Medieval English Nunneries

  1. 339 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Performing Piety

Musical Culture in Medieval English Nunneries

About this book

Addressing questions about the musical life in English nunneries in the later Middle Ages, Yardley pieces together a mosaic of nunnery musical life, where even the smallest convents sang the monastic offices on a daily basis and many of the larger houses celebrated the late medieval liturgy in all of its complexity.

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Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781403962997
eBook ISBN
9781137057334

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Musical Examples
  8. List of Tables
  9. Preface
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 The Religious Rules
  12. 2 Musical Leadership in the Nunnery
  13. 3 The Reality of Musical Life
  14. 4 Everyday Musical Practices: Psalters, Hours, and the Office of the Dead
  15. 5 Pomp and Piety: Processional Practices in Nunneries
  16. 6 The Consecration of Nuns
  17. 7 A Case Study in Benedictine Practices: Barking Abbey
  18. 8 The Bridgettine Nuns of Syon Abbey
  19. Conclusions
  20. Appendix A: List of Nuns Holding the Position of Cantrix
  21. Appendix B: The Role of the Chantress at Syon Abbey
  22. Appendix C: Theoretical Material from Wherwell Abbey
  23. Appendix D: The Visitatio from the Wilton Processional
  24. Notes
  25. Selected Bibliography
  26. Index

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