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A paradise of priests : singing the civic and episcopal hagiography of medieval Liège /
In the ""priestly paradise"" of medieval Liège, sacred music became a pervasive and versatile medium by which the clergy promoted the holy status of their city. While this hotbed of female piety and Eucharistic devotion is recognized as a center of liturgical innovation, the sym...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester : Woodbridge, UK :
University of Rochester Press ; Boydell & Brewer,
2014.
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| Colección: | Eastman studies in music ;
v. 108. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the ""priestly paradise"" of medieval Liège, sacred music became a pervasive and versatile medium by which the clergy promoted the holy status of their city. While this hotbed of female piety and Eucharistic devotion is recognized as a center of liturgical innovation, the symbiosis of saintly and civic ideals voiced in locally composed plainchant and polyphony has remained overlooked. Musicologist Catherine Saucier forges new interdisciplinary connections to demonstrate how 'liégeois' clerics constructed a civic sacred identity through sung rituals in conjunction with hagiographic writing a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781580468367 1580468365 |
| ISSN: | 1071-9989 ; |