World of Echo : : Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England / / Adin E. Lears.
Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. In World of Echo, Adin E. Lears traces how medieval thinkers adopte...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction: Voice in Medieval Soundscapes
- 1. “Clamor Iste Canor Est”: Rolle’s Heavenly Song and the Lay Theology of Noise
- 2. “Nota de Clamore”: Echoic Mysticism and Margery Kempe’s Clamorous Style
- 3. “Wondres to Here”: Noise, Soundplay, and Langland’s Poetics of Lolling in the Time of Wyclif
- 4. “Litel Sercles” of Sound: Resonance and the Noise of Language in Chaucer’s House of Fame
- 5. “A Verray Jangleresse”: Experience, Authority, and the Blisse of the Wife of Bath
- Epilogue: Echoic Afterlives
- Bibliography
- Index