Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe

Twelve medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including law, literature, and religion address the question: What did it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one - during the Middle Ages? This collection reveals how the philosophy, theology, and aesthetics of the voice inhabit some of the most canonical texts of the Middle Ages.

Auteur
Andrew Albin, Fordham University, USA Hélène Bernier-Farella, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France Ghislain Casas, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France Marisa Galvez, Stanford University, USA Cédric Giraud, University of Lorraine, France University of Groningen, Netherlands Bruno Lemesle, University of Burgundy, France Andreea Marculescu, University of California, Irvine, USA Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago, USA Matthew G. Shoaf, Ursinus College, USA Robert Stanton, Boston College, USA Anna Zayaruznaya, Yale University, USA

Contenu

Editor's Introduction; Irit Ruth Kleiman

PART I: THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF THE HUMAN: VOICE AND LANGUAGE

1. Locutio Angelica, or Language without Voice; Ghislain Casas
2. Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles; Robert Stanton

PART II: THE SOCIAL BODY: VOICE, AUTHORITY, AND COMMUNITY

3. Ritual Voices and Social Silence: Funerary Lamentations in Byzantium ; Hélène Bernier-Farella
4. Viva voce: Voice and Voicelessness Among Twelfth-Century Clerics ; Bruno Lemesle
5. Abelard and Heloise between Voice and Silence; Babette S. Hellemans

PART III: RHETORIC AND SUBJECTIVITY: POLYPHONIC VOICES

6. The Voice of the Unrepentant Crusader: "Aler m'estuet" by the Châtelain d'Arras; Marisa Galvez
7. Margery's "Noyse" and Distributed Expressivity; Julie Orlemanski
8. The Voice of the Possessed in Late Medieval French Theater; Andreea Marculescu

PART IV: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES: REPRESENTATIONSOF HUMAN AND DIVINE VOICES

9. "Sanz note" & "sanz mesure": Towards a Pre-Modern Aesthetics of the Dirge; Anna Zayaruznaya
10. Listening for canor in Richard Rolle's Melos amoris; Andrew Albin
11. Mary between Voice and Voicelessness: The Latin Meditationes of Bernard de Rosier; Cédric Giraud
12. Picturing the Voiceless in an Age of Visible Speech; Matthew Shoaf
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