Manuscripts and Medieval Song Inscription, Performance, Context
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 1842
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781316240465
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This 11-chapter, peer-reviewed volume was organized and commissioned by both editors, who selected case studies suited to the book’s argument and invited experts to write chapters fully cognisant of the overall conception and plan. Both editors co-wrote the Introduction (3K words) and Chapter 11 (6K words), a concluding chapter that bears considerable weight in drawing together the many threads shared between the case studies, and powerfully articulating the book’s thesis and contribution. Leach also wrote Chapters 9 (8K words) and 10 (9K words), substantial re-assessments of two fourteenth-century song manuscripts, drawing upon new and detailed palaeographical, codicological, and musical analysis.
Each chapter constitutes an original perspective on a given manuscript, deliberately treating the manuscripts as whole books, and the songs within them as one element among many that were chosen by medieval scribes for inclusion, and experienced together by medieval readers. This approach and the rigorous survey of each manuscript’s contents, construction, and historiographical treatment, make each chapter an essential point of reference for further study. Reviewers have noted this volume’s highly original and significant contribution, its diversity of case studies and the determination to cut through the historiographical trends that have artificially separated medieval songs and their manuscript witnesses.
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