What would an introductory guide to medieval music look like if it were based around the humans involved in music-making? It’s perhaps not surprising that medieval music history has often been written around genres – musical objects – rather than people, because so many of medieval music’s personalities are simply unknown. In writing Medieval Polyphony […]
Read MoreThe HBO series Game of Thrones is perhaps the most recent expression of the general view that the Middle Ages were rape-prone. Humiliation and exploitation of female (and male) characters repeatedly come together with direct sexual violence, which is only partially reframed through a series of revenge-sequences in the last season. The cinematic quality of […]
Read More‘Schubert didn’t write many quartets, did he?’ was a question I faced with surprising regularity through the writing of this book. Beyond such Schubertian staples as the ‘Death and the Maiden’, ‘Rosamunde’ and G-major quartets, and the String Quintet in C, my interlocutors were often of the shared opinion that Schubert wrote little else in […]
Read More“What is there new to say about nineteenth-century Haydn and Mozart reception?” a musically-inclined friend asked me, with a glint in his eye, when I mentioned my book a few years ago. I started my project with two hunches: that near-universal assumptions about Haydn’s nineteenth-century reputational “fall” are based on an overly narrow consideration of […]
Read MoreNandini Pandey (author of The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 2018) stepped out with Jennifer Stager (Seeing Color in Classical Art, 2022) for a walk around the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, MD and a conversation about Stager’s new book. NP: Tell me about your book. What are some of the big questions […]
Read MoreThe Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti imagined houses as living beings: when they are happy they welcome you to their ‘bosom’, the central hall; when they are badly sited they feel humiliated, ‘enjoying no dignity’ and ‘taking no pleasure’. Gendered as feminine, the building loves to ‘gaze out’ at her surrounding landscape, ‘both […]
Read MoreThe medieval Mediterranean was a sea of exchange of cultures, religions, commodities, and worldviews. With a focus on monumental and panel painting, Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean probes issues of cultural transmission through a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is a product of almost ten years of research; it began as […]
Read MoreWhen I lived in Germany, I was spoilt by choice so far as opera was concerned. I was in an area that had three large theatres separated by two rivers and all very close to one another. I certainly wasn’t alone in having such great access to music and theatre, as Germany has more theatres […]
Read MoreWhat would an introductory guide to medieval music look like if it were based around the humans involved in music-making? It’s perhaps not surprising that medieval music history has often been written around genres – musical objects – rather than people, because so many of medieval music’s personalities are simply unknown. In writing Medieval Polyphony […]
Read MoreThe HBO series Game of Thrones is perhaps the most recent expression of the general view that the Middle Ages were rape-prone. Humiliation and exploitation of female (and male) characters repeatedly come together with direct sexual violence, which is only partially reframed through a series of revenge-sequences in the last season. The cinematic quality of […]
Read More‘Schubert didn’t write many quartets, did he?’ was a question I faced with surprising regularity through the writing of this book. Beyond such Schubertian staples as the ‘Death and the Maiden’, ‘Rosamunde’ and G-major quartets, and the String Quintet in C, my interlocutors were often of the shared opinion that Schubert wrote little else in […]
Read More“What is there new to say about nineteenth-century Haydn and Mozart reception?” a musically-inclined friend asked me, with a glint in his eye, when I mentioned my book a few years ago. I started my project with two hunches: that near-universal assumptions about Haydn’s nineteenth-century reputational “fall” are based on an overly narrow consideration of […]
Read MoreNandini Pandey (author of The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 2018) stepped out with Jennifer Stager (Seeing Color in Classical Art, 2022) for a walk around the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, MD and a conversation about Stager’s new book. NP: Tell me about your book. What are some of the big questions […]
Read MoreThe Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti imagined houses as living beings: when they are happy they welcome you to their ‘bosom’, the central hall; when they are badly sited they feel humiliated, ‘enjoying no dignity’ and ‘taking no pleasure’. Gendered as feminine, the building loves to ‘gaze out’ at her surrounding landscape, ‘both […]
Read MoreThe medieval Mediterranean was a sea of exchange of cultures, religions, commodities, and worldviews. With a focus on monumental and panel painting, Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean probes issues of cultural transmission through a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is a product of almost ten years of research; it began as […]
Read MoreWhen I lived in Germany, I was spoilt by choice so far as opera was concerned. I was in an area that had three large theatres separated by two rivers and all very close to one another. I certainly wasn’t alone in having such great access to music and theatre, as Germany has more theatres […]
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Hélène Lecossois is Professor of Irish Literary Studies at Université de Lille, France. Specialising in Irish theatre and performance, Hélène is the author of Endgame de Samuel Beckett (2009), and of various essays in Beckett Today, Études irlandaises, Sillages critiques and the 2014 edited collection Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination. She was 2014 recipient of the Moore Institute Fellowship (NUI Galway).
Manchester Metropolitan University
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Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds
Yeats and European Drama
The History of the Erard Piano and Harp in Letters and Documents, 1785–1959
The Manual of Musical Instrument Conservation
Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd
Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times
Vocal Authority
A History of Singing
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The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
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