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Music in Early Franciscan Thought: 9
Author(s): Peter Loewen (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 8 May 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 276 pages
- ISBN-10: 900424817X
- ISBN-13: 9789004248175
Book Description
Music in Early Franciscan Thought is an interdisciplinary study exploring the broad relevance of music in Franciscan hagiography, art, theology, philosophy, and preaching between the founding of the Order in 1210 and 1300―a period covering their rapid ascendancy in medieval society as an Order of clerics. The book covers representations of music in visual and literary hagiography, the inspiration of Pope Innocent III, and the formative writings of William of Middleton and David von Augsburg. Later chapters examine the science and practice of music and its relevance to the ministry of preaching through the writings of Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, and Juan Gil de Zamora.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“…An important addition to medieval musicological research. Summing Up: Recommended.”
B. L. Eden (Valparaiso University), CHOICE, November 2013
B. L. Eden (Valparaiso University), CHOICE, November 2013
About the Author
Peter V. Loewen, Ph.D. (2000) is Associate Professor of Musicology at Rice University. He has published several articles concerning music, drama, and the Franciscans, including “Portrayals of the Vita Christi in the Medieval German Marienklage: Signs of Franciscan Exegesis and Rhetoric in Drama and Music” (Comparative Drama, 2008).
