Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Editor’s Introduction

   1. Editor’s Introduction

      • Irit Ruth Kleiman

      Pages 1-9

3. The Nature and Limits of the Human: Voice and Language

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Language Without Voice: Locutio Angelica as a Political Issue

      • Ghislain Casas

      Pages 13-28

   3. Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles

      • Robert Stanton

      Pages 29-43

4. The Social Body: Voice, Authority, and Community

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Ritual Voices and Social Silence: Funerary Lamentations in Byzantium

      • Hélène Bernier-Farella

      Pages 47-63

   3. Viva Voce: Voice and Voicelessness Among Twelfth-Century Clerics

      • Bruno Lemesle

      Pages 65-81

   4. Abelard and Heloise Between Voice and Silence

      • Babette S. Hellemans

      Pages 83-97

5. Rhetoric and Subjectivity: Polyphonic Voices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. The Voice of the Unrepentant Crusader: “Aler M’Estuet” by the ChÂtelain D’Arras

      • Marisa Galvez

      Pages 101-122

   3. Margery’s “Noyse” and Distributed Expressivity

      • Julie Orlemanski

      Pages 123-138

   4. The Voice of the Possessed in Late Medieval French Theater

      • Andreea Marculescu

      Pages 139-152

6. Aesthetic Experiences: Representations of Human and Divine Voices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. “Sanz Note” & “Sanz Mesure”: Toward a Premodern Aesthetics of the Dirge

      • Anna Zayaruznaya

      Pages 155-175

   3. Listening For Canor in Richard Rolle’s Melos amoris

      • Andrew Albin

      Pages 177-197

   4. Mary between Voice and Voicelessness: The Latin Meditationes of Bernard de Rosier

      • Cédric Giraud

      Pages 199-212

   5. Voice and Wisdom in Early Italian Art

      • Matthew G. Shoaf

      Pages 213-234

7. Back Matter

   Pages 235-264

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Twelve medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including law, literature, and religion address the question: What did it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one - during the Middle Ages? This collection reveals how the philosophy, theology, and aesthetics of the voice inhabit some of the most canonical texts of the Middle Ages.

• aesthetics
• crusades
• Europe
• law
• Medieval Literature
• Middle Ages
• philosophy
• religion
• rhetoric
• theology
• literature
• Medieval Literature
• Middle Ages
• rhetoric

“The collection is interested in how notions of subjectivity may be augmented or challenged by historicist approaches, the pervasiveness of theological and philosophical theories of voice in medieval culture more widely, and the aesthetics of medieval voice and vocalization. … This is a collection whose contributions "speak" to each other in a number of ways and which will likewise speak to scholars and disciplines that listen for past and lost voices--among medievalists, who can that leave out?” (Victoria Blud, University of York, UK)

“No period of Western culture was more attuned to the modalities and urgencies of voice than the Middle Ages. Irit Ruth Kleiman is to be congratulated for bringing a remarkable range of scholars and their subjects together into this imaginative, learned, and impressively coherent collection. Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe makes a major contribution to Medieval Studies, as it does to Sound Studies.” (Nicholas Watson, Professor of English, Harvard University, USA)

“These incisive essays reveal medieval speech's role in creating communities balanced between the divine and animal realms.” (Stephen G. Nichols, James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Andrew Albin, Fordham University, USA Hélène Bernier-Farella, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France Ghislain Casas, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France Marisa Galvez, Stanford University, USA Cédric Giraud, University of Lorraine, France University of Groningen, Netherlands Bruno Lemesle, University of Burgundy, France Andreea Marculescu, University of California, Irvine, USA Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago, USA Matthew G. Shoaf, Ursinus College, USA Robert Stanton, Boston College, USA Anna Zayaruznaya, Yale University, USA

Policies and ethics