Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval English Nunneries (The New Middle Ages)

by Anne Bagnall Yardley (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $113.55

  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.