Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval English Nunneries

Yardley, A.

Addressing questions about the musical life in English nunneries in the later Middle Ages, Yardley pieces together a mosaic of nunnery musical life, where even the smallest convents sang the monastic offices on a daily basis and many of the larger houses celebrated the late medieval liturgy in all of its complexity.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-08-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403962997

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-05733-4

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 326.0