Secular Carolling in Late Medieval England

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-64189-402-9
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Early Social Performance

This study shows the importance of carolling in the celebrations and festivities of medieval Britain and demonstrates its longevity from the eleventh century to the sixteenth. It illustrates the flexibility of the English carole form for adaptation to include content in high and low registers and its suitability for use on all occasions and by different communal peer groups. Although the vast majority of extant texts in carol form from the late medieval period are religious in subject content, secular carolling was far more prevalent than the textual record implies. The dance-song elements of the medieval carole were so strongly woven into the vernacular cultural fabric of the British Isles that their threads can be traced through the folk songs and dances of subsequent centuries. This study contextualizes the written evidence and re-integrates the various components of the activity in order to illuminate our understanding of the universally popular medieval, participatory, pastime of carolling.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eustace, Frances

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Mittelalter & Renaissance
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One: Carolling and Dance-Song in the Context of a Primarily Oral Culture

Chapter Two: Courtly Carolling: Contexts and Practices

Chapter Three: The Church, Carolling and the Emergence of the English Franciscan Carole Writers of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Chapter Four: Carole Texts in Context: The Manuscripts

Chapter Five: Carole Texts as Witnesses to Carolling Practice

Chapter Six: Survivances of Carolling in Folk Culture

Über Autor(innen)

Eustace, Frances
Frances Eustace holds a recent doctorate in Medieval Studies from the University of Bristol. She is a professional musician and a qualified Dance Movement Therapist. She has been part of the HIP (Historically Informed Performance) movement in Britain since the 1980s and plays bassoons, viols, and bagpipes, among other instruments.