Discarding Images Reflections on Music and Culture in Medieval France |
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| Author:
| Page, Christopher |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-816679-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $149.95AUD $157.95 |
Book Description:
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Western imagination has long pictured the medieval period as a kind of odyssey, which took Mankind to a strange country before his homecoming at the Renaissance. In this provocative book, Christopher Page explores the kinds of generalizations that we habitually make about `the Middle Ages' and which sustain this false image. In so doing, he challenges us to re-examine our assumptions about the music and culture generally of this period.
Western imagination has long pictured the medieval period as a kind of odyssey, which took Mankind to a strange country before his homecoming at the Renaissance. In this provocative book, Christopher Page explores the kinds of generalizations that we habitually make about `the Middle Ages' and which sustain this false image. In so doing, he challenges us to re-examine our assumptions about the music and culture generally of this period.