From Propheta plangens to Rethor divinus: Toward an Understanding of the Rhetorical Hermeneutics of Gilbert the Universal in his Gloss on Lamentations
Alexander Andrée
This book thrusts the reader into intellectual turmoil of medieval Europe. In interrelated studies largely unexplored material dating from ninth through to fourteenth centuries, contributors explore changes in functions and forms liturgical poetry music, biblical interpretation. Although twelfth century constitutes main focus, phenomena dealt with here had roots earlier times remained circulation later centuries. The cultural heritage Carolingian intellectuals tied palace school Charles Bald is examined a context. Forms ideas this period were reused transformed century, as represented by sequences, tropes, Abelard’s poetry, Gloss Lamentations, ritual representations or ‘liturgical drama’. two final chapters treat fourteenth-century uses understandings Boethius’s De institutione musica new genre sequence commentaries, both dealing views on music theory an period, thus connecting end its beginning. sections are interspersed philosophical reflections overriding themes contributions. volume concludes anthology poetic texts Latin English translations musical transcriptions.
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