Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Editor’s Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Language Without Voice: Locutio Angelica as a Political Issue....Pages 13-28
Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles....Pages 29-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Ritual Voices and Social Silence: Funerary Lamentations in Byzantium....Pages 47-63
Viva Voce: Voice and Voicelessness Among Twelfth-Century Clerics....Pages 65-81
Abelard and Heloise Between Voice and Silence....Pages 83-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
The Voice of the Unrepentant Crusader: “Aler M’Estuet” by the ChÂtelain D’Arras....Pages 101-122
Margery’s “Noyse” and Distributed Expressivity....Pages 123-138
The Voice of the Possessed in Late Medieval French Theater....Pages 139-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
“Sanz Note” & “Sanz Mesure”: Toward a Premodern Aesthetics of the Dirge....Pages 155-175
Listening For Canor in Richard Rolle’s Melos amoris....Pages 177-197
Mary between Voice and Voicelessness: The Latin Meditationes of Bernard de Rosier....Pages 199-212
Voice and Wisdom in Early Italian Art....Pages 213-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-264