The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of
medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records
of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical
composition. Three issues are central to the volume: the role of
ritual speech acts; the way in which authorship can be seen as
created within medieval texts rather than as a given category;
finally, phenomena of voice, created and situated between citation
and repetition, especially in forms which appropriate and transform
literary tradition. The volume encompasses articles by historians
and musicologists as well as literary scholars. It spans European
literature from the West (French, German, Italian) to the East
(Church Slavonic), vernacular and Latin; it contrasts modes of
liturgical meditation in the Western and Eastern Church with
secular plays and songs, and it brings together studies on the
character of 'voice' in major medieval authors such as Dante with
examples of Dante-reception in the early twentieth century.
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