Discarding Images Reflections on Music and Culture in Medieval France |
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Author:
| Page, Christopher |
Series title: | Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-816679-5 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1997 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $90.00 |
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.