Performing piety: musical culture in medieval english nunneries
Auteur :
Yardley, A.
Éditeur :
Palgrave USA
ISBN :
9781403962997
Date de publication :
12 août 2008
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.