Manuscripts and Medieval Song : Inscription, Performance, Context
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 30289336
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/CBO9781107477193
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107062634
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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 jointly conceived of, and edited by, Deeming and Leach. Its central premise is that recent methodological approaches to re-assess the social dimension of song through its material witnesses—previously trialled on a small subset of medieval song manuscripts—can be applied equally to manuscripts from across the large span of the middle ages, and can lead to a fundamental re-evaluation of the medieval song tradition. The editors selected and commissioned the case-studies best suited to the argument of the book, ensuring coverage of a diversity of repertory and cutting through the historiographical trends that have artificially separated medieval songs and their manuscript witnesses by language, genre and musical style. Each chapter of the book offers a new account of its case-study manuscript, treating the manuscripts as whole books, and the songs within them in as one element among many that were chosen by medieval scribes for inclusion, and experienced together by medieval readers. Deeming and Leach co-wrote the Introduction (3000 words) and Chapter 11 (6000 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. As sole author, Deeming contributed Chapters 5 (7000 words) and 6 (8000 words), each a detailed and substantial re-assessment of a thirteenth-century song manuscript, drawing upon new and detailed palaeographical, codicological and musical analysis.
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- Non-English
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