This book is a study of the programmatic oral performance of the written word and its impact on art and text. Communal singing and reading of the Latin texts th

This collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church,

From the deserts of Egypt to the emergence of the great monastic orders, the story of late antique and medieval monasticism in the West used to be straightforwa

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"This book is a study of the programmatic oral performance of the written word and its impact on art and text. Communal singing and reading of the Latin texts t