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Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. In World of Echo, Adin E. Lears traces how medieval thinkers adopted the concept of noise as a mode of lay understanding grounded in the body and the senses. With a broadly interdisciplinary approach, Lears examines a range of literary genres to highlight the poetic and social effects of this vibrant discourse, offering close readings of works by Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, as well as the mystics Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe. Each of these writers embraced an embodied experience of language resistant to clear articulation, even as their work reflects inherited anxieties about the appeal of such sensations. A preoccupation with the sound of language emerged in the form of poetic soundplay at the same time that mysticism and other forms of lay piety began to flower in England. As Lears shows, the presence of such emphatic aural texture amplified the cognitive importance of feeling in conjunction with reason and was a means for the laity-including lay women-to cultivate embodied forms of knowledge on their own terms, in precarious relation to existing clerical models of instruction. World of Echo offers a deep history of the cultural and social hierarchies that coalesce around aesthetic experience and gives voice to alternate ways of knowing.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 septembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501749629
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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 WORLD OF ECHO

WORLDOFECHONOI SE AND KNOWI NG I N L AT E ME DI E VAL E NGL AND n

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CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESSIthaca and London

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lears, Adin E. (Adin Esther), 1982– author. Title: World of echo : noise and knowing in late medieval England / Adin E.Lears. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Includesbibliographical references and index. Identifiers:LCCN2019046308(print)|LCCN2019046309(ebook) | ISBN9781501749605 (cloth) | ISBN 9781501749612 (epub) | ISBN 9781501749629(pdf ) Subjects: LCSH: Noise—Social aspects—England— History—To 1500. |Sound—Social aspects—England— History—To 1500. |England—Intellectual life— 1066–1485. Classification: LCC DA185 .L43 2020 (print) | LCC DA185 (ebook) | DDC809/.9336—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046308 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046309

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Corpus adhuc Echo, non vox erat. Uptothistime,Echowasabody,notavoicealone.—Ovid,MetamorphosesIII. 359

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Acknowledgmentsxi List of Abbreviations xiii Note on Transliterationxv

Introduction:VoiceinMedievalSoundscapes

1. “Clamor Iste Canor Est”: Rolle’s Heavenly Song and the Lay Theology of Noise2. “Nota de Clamore”: Echoic Mysticism and Margery Kempe’s Clamorous Style3. “Wondres to Here”: Noise, Soundplay, and Langland’s Poetics of Lolling in the Time of Wyclif4. “Litel Sercles” of Sound: Resonance and the Noise of Language in Chaucer’sHouse of Fame5. “A Verray Jangleresse”: Experience, Authority, and theBlisseof the Wife of Bath Epilogue: Echoic Afterlives

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