Early Drama, Art and Music

  • For nearly forty years, Early Drama, Art, and Music (EDAM) has established a reputation for publishing specialized, high-quality scholarship through Medieval Institute Publications. The EDAM Board seeks submissions from new and established scholars conducting studies of the medieval performing and visual arts broadly conceived, on topics including—but not limited to—music; civic and liturgical festivals; plays and dramatic literature; performance objects, architecture and technology; and ritual and homiletics. We also invite theoretical and interdisciplinary work that engages historical subjects in relation to art and material culture, orality and speech-act theory, gender and sexuality, affect and reception, and philosophy.

  • A fragment of a stained glass window in tones of blue and gold depicting an angel robed in white playing a portatif organ.

    Image credit: Border Fragment with Musical Angel, ca. 1140-1144. From the ambulatory and crypt of the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint Benedict Window. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1980. Public domain.

The editors are especially interested in expanding the scope of EDAM to include explorations of performance traditions beyond the Anglophone and Latin world to the Eastern Roman Empire and the medieval Mediterranean at large.

Keywords: Medieval music; liturgical festivals; plays and dramatic literature; architecture; visual art

Geographical Scope: Global

Chronological Scope: Medieval

  • Editorial Board
    • Katie Brokaw, University of California, Merced 
    • Erith Jaffe-Berg, University of California, Riverside
    • Jenna Soleo-Shanks, University of Minnesota Duluth
    • Christopher Swift, New York City College of Technology
    • Andrew Walker White, George Mason University  
  • Submissions

    To submit a proposal or completed manuscript to be considered for publication by Medieval Institute Publications or to learn more about the series, please contact Tyler Cloherty, acquisitions editor for the series. 

All Books in this Series

  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca and the World Theatre in Early Modern Europe: The Theatrum Mundi of Celebration

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    Pedro Calderón de la Barca and the World Theatre in Early Modern Europe: The Theatrum Mundi of Celebration

    By Rasmus Vangshardt

    The author presents a new close reading of Pedro Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo (c. 1633–36) and outlines the historical and systematic framework for a theatrum mundi of celebration. This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the cosmos: an early modern aesthetic theodicy and a justification of the world in that liminal space between drama and ritual. By discussing historiographical theories of early modern Europe, especially those of Hans Blumenberg and Bruno Latour, and through conversations with Shakespearean drama and Spanish Golden Age classics, Vangshardt also argues that the theatrum mundi of celebration questions traditional assumptions of great divides between the Middle Ages and Early Modernity and challenges theories of a European-wide early modern sense of crisis.

    ISBN  978-1-50152-717-3 (hardcover), 978-1-50151-700-6 (PDF), 978-1-50151-702-0 (EPUB) © 2023

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  • The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Translation

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    The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Translation

    Edited by Kyle A. Thomas and Carol Symes

    The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a critical point in the power-struggle between the papacy and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. In this new translation, Carol Symes provides the first full and faithful rendering of the play’s dynamic language, maintaining the meter, rhyme scheme, and stage directions of the Latin original and restoring the liturgical elements embedded in the text. Kyle A. Thomas, whose dedicated research provides the foundation for an analysis of the play’s broader contexts, also brings perspectives from the first fully staged modern production that tested the theatricality of the translation and provides a new historical and dramaturgical analysis of the play’s rich interpretive and performative possibilities.

    ISBN 978-1-50151-798-3 (paperback), 978-1-50151-357-2 (PDF), 978-1-50151-341-1 (EPUB) © 2023

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  • Collectors, Commissioners, Curators: Studies in Medieval Art for Stephen Fliegel

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    Collectors, Commissioners, Curators: Studies in Medieval Art for Stephen Fliegel

    Edited by Elina Gertsman

    This volume celebrates the storied career of Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Authors of these essays, all leading curators in their fields, offer insights into curatorial practices by highlighting key objects in some of the most famous medieval collections in North America and Europe: Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Louvre, the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Getty, the Groeningemuseum, The Morgan Library, Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum and, of course, the CMA, offering perspectives on the histories of collecting and display, artistic identity and patronage, with special foci on Burgundian art, acquisition histories and objects in the CMA.

    ISBN 978-1-50152-110-2 (clothbound), 978-1-50151-484-5 (PDF), 978-1-50151-485-2 (EPUB) © 2023

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  • The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler

    The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University

    The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler

    By Thomas Meacham

    This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no "drama" in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by Humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth- century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery.

    EDAM Monograph 37, ISBN 978-1-58044-355-5 (clothbound), 978-1-50151-312-1 (PDF), 978-1-50151-292-6 (EPUB) © 2020

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  • The Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature: Cognition, Kinesis, and the Sacred

    The Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature: Cognition, Kinesis, and the Sacred

    By Sarah Brazil

    In this innovative study, Brazil demonstrates how medieval writers use clothing to direct readers’ and spectators’ awareness to forms of embodiment. By bringing recent studies in the field of embodied cognition to bear on narrated and dramatized interactions between dress and body, this book offers new methodological tools to the study of clothing.

    EDAM Monograph 36, ISBN 978-158044-357-9 (clothbound), 978-158044-358-6 (PDF) © 2018

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  • The Jeu d'Adam: MS Tours 927 and the Provenance of the Play

    Cover image of The Jeu d'Adam: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, The Huth Bible, fol. 2r; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1915.533. Photo courtesy of the Index of Christian Art.

    The Jeu d'Adam: MS Tours 927 and the Provenance of the Play

    Edited by Christophe Chaguinian

    The Jeu d'Adam is an Anglo-Norman mid-twelfth-century representation of several biblical stories, including the temptation of Adam and Eve and the subsequent fall, Cain and Abel, and the prophets Isaiah and Daniel. Its framework builds on the Latin responses of the mass during the liturgical season of Septuagesima, from before Lent to Easter. This collection of essays explores whether this early play was monastic or secular, its Anglo-Norman character, and the text's musical provenance.

    EDAM Monograph 35, ISBN 978-158044-267-1 (clothbound), 978-158044-266-4 (PDF) © 2018

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  • From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage

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    From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage

    By Lisa Hopkins

    This book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between the withdrawal of the Roman legions and the Norman Conquest, and considers the extent to which ideas about early modern English and British national, religious, and political identities were rooted in cultural constructions of the pre-Conquest past.

    EDAM Monograph 34, ISBN 978-1-58044-279-4 (clothbound), 978-1-58044-280-0 (PDF) © 2017

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  • Liturgical Drama and the Reimagining of Medieval Theater

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    Liturgical Drama and the Reimagining of Medieval Theater

    By Michael Norton

    Prior to the invention of the expression "liturgical drama" in 1834 as a metaphor that only later hardened into a formal category, the medieval rites and representations that would forge the category were understood as distinct and unrelated classes: as liturgical rites no longer celebrated or as theatrical works of dubious quality. This ground-breaking work examines "liturgical drama" according to the contexts of their presentations within the manuscripts and books that preserve them.

    EDAM Monograph 32, ISBN 978-1-58044-262-6 (clothbound), 978-1-58044-263-3 (PDF) © 2017

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  • Mary of Nemmegen: The ca. 1518 Translation and Middle Dutch Analogue, "Mariken van Nieumeghen"

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    Mary of Nemmegen: The ca. 1518 Translation and Middle Dutch Analogue, "Mariken van Nieumeghen"

    Edited and translated by Clifford Davidson, Ton Broos, and Martin Walsh

    Mary of Nemmegen, a prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play "Mariken van Nieumeghen," is an important example of the literature that was imported from Holland in the early part of the sixteenth century - literature that helped to establish an English taste for narrative prose fiction.

    EDAM Monograph 31, ISBN 978-1-58044-221-3 (clothbound) © 2016

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  • Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages

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    Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    Edited by Timothy J. McGee

    A careful reading of the essays brings with it the awareness that to ignore improvisation is to distort the art in a major way. In light of the present volume, the very concept of "faithful historical re-creation" takes on a much broader and more complex character.

    EDAM Monograph 30, ISBN 1-58044-044-4 (clothbound), ISBN 1-58044-045-2 (paperback) © 2003

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  • Paying the Piper: Music in Pre-1642 Cheshire

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    Paying the Piper: Music in Pre-1642 Cheshire

    Elizabeth Baldwin, with a contribution on music in the city by David Mills

    In this book, Elizabeth Baldwin studies the early music situation in a single county, Cheshire, from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the Civil War, focusing on music outside the regular control of the Church and looking not only at the trained professional but at music-makers from the performers at guild feasts to the gentleman who takes music lessons and the alehouse-keeper who plays the pipes.

    EDAM Monograph 29, ISBN 1-58044-040-1 (clothbound), ISBN 1-58044-041-X (paperback–out of print) © 2002

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  • Gesture in Medieval Drama and Art

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    Gesture in Medieval Drama and Art

    Edited by Clifford Davidson

    Gesture and movement on stage in early drama have previously received very little attention in scholarship. The present collection of essays is the first book to present sensible, penetrating, and wide-ranging discussions of the gestural effects that were integral to the early stage.

    EDAM Monograph 28, ISBN 1-58044-028-2 (clothbound), ISBN 1-58044-029-0 (paperback–out of print) © 2001

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  • The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays

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    The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays

    Edited by Pamela M. King and Clifford Davidson

    One of the greatest medieval drama cycles in England was mounted annually at Coventry at Corpus Christi until suppressed in 1579 and is of particular importance because it was almost certainly seen by William Shakespeare when he was a boy in nearby Stratford-upon-Avon.

    EDAM Monograph 27, ISBN 1-58044-055-X (clothbound), 978-0-91872-089-4 (paperback–out of print) © 2000

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  • The Worlde and the Chylde

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    The Worlde and the Chylde

    Edited by Clifford Davidson and Peter Happé, with an appendix on the dialect by Paul A. Johnston, Jr.

    "The Worlde and the Chylde," issued by the press of Wynkyn de Worde in 1521, is one of the very earliest plays published in England. It also has very considerable interest for its adaptation of the ages of man iconography, which is extensively treated in the introduction, notes and illustrations.

    EDAM Monograph 26, ISBN 1-58044-051-7 (clothbound), 1-58044-052-5 (paperback–out of print) © 1999

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  • Material Culture and Medieval Drama

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    Material Culture and Medieval Drama

    Edited by Clifford Davidson

    Like the editor's "Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama," the contributions by distinguished American and British scholars to this volume recognize that early drama depended on specific developments in material culture in order to achieve its effects, which included both visual and auditory means of appealing to audiences.

    EDAM Monograph 25, ISBN 1-58044-020-7 (clothbound), ISBN 1-58044-021-5 (paperback) © 1999

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  • The Play of Daniel: Critical Essays

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    The Play of Daniel: Critical Essays

    Edited by Dunbar H. Ogden, with a transcription of the music by A. Marcel J. Zijlstra

    This book, for the first time, provides a critical introduction to the staging and production, music and setting of the play in its architectural and historical context.

    EDAM Monograph 24, ISBN 1-879288-77-X (paperback) © 1997

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  • Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama

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    Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama

    Clifford Davidson

    This book is designed to open up a broader scope of study which calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York and Chester.
    Copyright 1997, pp. x + 128

    EDAM Monograph 23, ISBN 1-879288-79-6 (clothbound), ISBN 1-879288-80-X (paperback) © 1997

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  • Fools and Folly

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    Fools and Folly

    Edited by Clifford Davidson

    Attitudes toward the fool varied, but his place was to become assured on stage, where his role is best known to us through the plays of Shakespeare. The articles in the present volume provide indispensable analyses of the fool from a number of different perspectives.

    EDAM Monograph 22, ISBN 1-879288-69-9 (clothbound), ISBN 1-879288-70-2 (paperback–out of print) © 1996

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  • A Selection of Early Music from the Repertoire of the Society for Old Music

     

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    A Selection of Early Music from the Repertoire of the Society for Old Music

    Transcribed by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, edited by Matthew Steel and Nicholas Batch

    Audrey Ekdahl Davidson was a professor of music for many years at Western Michigan University. In honor of her retirement and her history with the Society for Old Music, an organization that she founded in 1966, this collection of music has been selected and prepared. The transcriptions were all designed for performances by the Society for Old Music, and were used in concerts for the local community, the International Congress on Medieval Studies, and other audiences in Michigan. The Society's concerts ranged from medieval chant and monophonic song to polyphonic choral works, and each concert focused on a particular topic, perhaps most successfully when music-drama was joined to liturgical display. The collection is a fitting tribute to tireless scholar, and an asset to any student of early music performance.

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  • Early Drama, Art and Music Documents: A Paleography Handbook

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    Early Drama, Art and Music Documents: A Paleography Handbook

    John M. Wasson

    A practical guide to late medieval and Renaissance paleography complete with facsimiles of documents, transcriptions and translations. The present volume will be of the greatest value to students and scholars who wish to consult original documents.

    EDAM Monograph 20, ISBN 1-879288-33-8 (clothbound), ISBN 1-879288-34-6 (paperback–out of print) © 1993

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  • A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, Revised Edition

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    A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, Revised Edition

    Edited by Clifford Davidson

    "A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge," usually believed to have been written between 1380 and 1425, is the longest and most significant piece of dramatic criticism in Middle English. It reflects the hostility of Wycliffite (or Lollard) authors toward dramatic representation and related activity, especially religious drama.

    EDAM Monograph 19, ISBN 1-978-1-58044-171-1 (paperback) © 1993

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  • The "Ordo Virtutum" of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies

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    The "Ordo Virtutum" of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies

    Edited by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson

    The first collection of essays on Hildegard's wonderfully unique "Ordo Virtutum," along with a reduced facsimile of the pages in Wiesbaden manuscript that contain the drama.

    EDAM Monograph 18, ISBN 1-879288-17-6 (clothbound), 978-1-87928-817-1 (paperback–out of print) © 1992

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  • Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580

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    Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580

    Clifford Davidson

    This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings and the woodcuts that appear in playbooks produced by the first English printers.

    EDAM Monograph 16, ISBN 0-918720-47-8 (clothbound), ISBN 0-918720-48-6 (paperback) © 1991

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  • Crossing the Boundaries: Christian Piety and the Arts in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Confraternities

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    Crossing the Boundaries: Christian Piety and the Arts in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Confraternities

    Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler

    Despite the paramount importance of confraternities (especially to males) in medieval European society, scholars have tended to neglect not only the social role they played but also the influence they had on the art, drama, music, and thinking of the society in which they not only existed but thrived. This collection of essays serves to illuminate this oft-ignored facet of medieval society, and each essay carefully examines some element of the influence of confraternities on society and its products.

    EDAM Monograph 15, ISBN 0-918720-45-1 (clothbound), 978-0-91872-046-7 (paperback–out of print) © 1991

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  • Studies in Fifteenth-Century Stagecraft

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    Studies in Fifteenth-Century Stagecraft

    J. W. Robinson

    Before he suddenly passed away, John W. Robinson was working on a manuscript that he saw as effecting a marriage between the dramatic and the theatrical, as he felt there was too large a divide between literary scholars and practitioners of the theater. That manuscript is presented here, a close study of eight plays and the elements Robinson considers essential to performance: playwright, sponsors, location, plot, script, players, and audience.

    EDAM Monograph 14, ISBN 0-918720-38-9 (clothbound), ISBN 0-918720-39-7 (paperback–out of print) © 1991

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  • Holy Week and Easter Ceremonies and Dramas from Medieval Sweden

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    Holy Week and Easter Ceremonies and Dramas from Medieval Sweden

    Edited by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson

    Texts, translations, musical transcriptions and facsimiles of the Swedish music-dramas for Holy Week and Easter: "Depositio," "Elevatio," and "Visitatio Sepulchri."
    Copyright 1990, pp. viii + 176

    EDAM Monograph 13, ISBN 0-918720-36-2 (clothbound–out of print), 0-918720-37-0 (paperback) © 1991

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  • Shakespeare's Play within Play: Medieval Imagery and Scenic Form in "Hamlet," "Othello," and "King Lear"

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    Shakespeare's Play within Play: Medieval Imagery and Scenic Form in "Hamlet," "Othello," and "King Lear"

    Cherrell Guilfoyle

    In his foreword to the volume, Clifford Davidson praises Guilfoyle’s application of the concept of scenic form in her study of Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear, and her exposition of Shakespeare’s historical consciousness, noting her “sensitive examination of the shape of the playwright’s scenes when placed against traditional visual configurations and related textual resonances.” Any student of Shakespeare will benefit from the nuanced study of his imagery and how it helps to color his characters and the action in his plays.

    EDAM Monograph 12, ISBN 0-918720-34-6 (clothbound), ISBN 0-918720-35-4 (paperback–out of print) © 1990

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  • Iconoclasm vs. Art and Drama

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    Iconoclasm vs. Art and Drama

    Edited by Clifford Davidson and Ann Eljenholm Nichols

    The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of the religious drama also had destroyed perhaps the majority of ecclesiastical art in England by the early years of Queen Elizabeth I.

    EDAM Monograph 11, ISBN 0-918720-97-4 (clothbound), ISBN 0-918720-98-2 (paperback) © 1988

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  • The Monophonic Lauda and the Lay Religious Confraternities of Tuscany and Umbria in the Late Middle Ages

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    The Monophonic Lauda and the Lay Religious Confraternities of Tuscany and Umbria in the Late Middle Ages

    Cyrilla Barr

    The study of popular hymnody is remote not only from contemporary experience but also from very many contemporary scholars. A great deal of this remove stems from the complicated origins and history of this important genre. The Monophonic Lauda aims to present for the first time an English study of the form, as such a text has not been available before. This also necessitates an exploration of previous scholarship on the lauda, though the book is not devoted to this particular exercise. The volume is well illustrated, including musical notation and black-and-white plates.

    EDAM Monograph 10, ISBN 0-918720-89-3 (clothbound), ISBN 0-918720-90-7 (paperback–out of print) © 1988

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  • The Idea of Music: An Introduction to Musical Aesthetics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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    The Idea of Music: An Introduction to Musical Aesthetics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

    Herbert M. Schueller

    Music has long been neglected by aestheticians, who tend to privilege discussions of visual arts and literature. In this volume, Herbert M. Schueller brings the aesthetics of music into the fold, tracing the development of the idea from classical antiquity through the medieval period. He writes in a manner accessible to scholars whose specialties lie outside of technical music theory, keeping in mind especially the aesthetician but also general medieval scholars, and even the general reader.

    EDAM Monograph 9, ISBN 0-918720-87-7 (clothbound), ISBN 0-918720-88-5 (paperback–out of print) © 1988

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  • The Saint Play in Medieval Europe

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    The Saint Play in Medieval Europe

    Edited by Clifford Davidson

    This illustrated volume intelligently provides a much-needed introduction to what may have been the most popular variety of drama in the Middle Ages: the saint play. A comprehensive and collaborative survey is provided with an emphasis on interdisciplinary study rather than only literary analysis. While the saint play in England is the connecting theme of the volume, the papers explore other topics necessary to fully understand the culture of the saint play, such as the genre as manifest on the continent, including plays in French, Italian and German.

    EDAM Monograph 8, ISBN 0-918720-77-X (clothbound), 978-0-91872-077-1 (paperback–out of print) © 1986

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  • The Fleury "Playbook": Essays and Studies

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    The Fleury "Playbook": Essays and Studies

    Edited by Thomas P. Campbell and Clifford Davidson

    Growing out of a symposium on the Fleury Playbook at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, this book includes essays from the symposium, as well as additional papers written by scholars whose specialties were not represented at the conference. Each essay covers a unique topic in the study of the Playbook, utilizing a diverse set of methodological tools and interdisciplinary approaches for subjects which have not heretofore received adequate scholarly attention. The topics at hand are each of significant interest to the field at large.

    EDAM Monograph 7, ISBN 0-918720-65-6 (clothbound–out of print), ISBN 0-918720-66-4 (paperback) © 1985

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  • Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama

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    Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama

    Papers by David Bevington, Huston Diehl, Richard Kenneth Emmerson, Ronald Herzman and Pamela Sheingorn

    David Bevington and the other contributors to this book look at this final event of history as depicted in pre-modern times, and the result is a work of scholarly precision that, according to Professor Bevington's introduction, "attempts to see medieval drama in the context of other medieval art forms."

    EDAM Monograph 6, ISBN 0-918720-60-5 (clothbound) © 1985

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  • Word, Picture, and Spectacle

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    Word, Picture, and Spectacle

    Edited by Clifford Davidson

    The topics covered include the symbolism of scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts, connections between word and picture in religious art, and the relationship perceived between divine and human creativity.

    EDAM Monograph 5, ISBN 0-918720-51-6 (clothbound) © 1985, ISBN 0-918720-50-5 (paperback) © 1984

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  • The Early Art of Norfolk: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art including Items Relevant to Early Drama

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    The Early Art of Norfolk: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art including Items Relevant to Early Drama

    Ann Eljenholm Nichols

    The book (double columns, 357 pages, plus plates) serves as a standard reference source for students of the ecclesiastical arts and also will provide an essential dimension for drama scholars.

    EDAM Reference 7, ISBN 1-58044-034-7 (clothbound) © 2002

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  • The Early Art of the West Riding of Yorkshire: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art including Items Relevant to Early Drama

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    The Early Art of the West Riding of Yorkshire: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art including Items Relevant to Early Drama

    Barbara D. Palmer

    Professor Palmer has systematically surveyed the art of the former West Riding of Yorkshire and has provided an iconographic index of this large region where medieval drama also flourished.

    EDAM Reference 6, ISBN 0-918720-32-X (clothbound), ISBN 0-918720-33-8 (paperback–out of print) © 1990

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  • The Easter Sepulchre in England

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    The Easter Sepulchre in England

    Pamela Sheingorn

    In addition to a catalog of Easter sepulchres in England, Professor Sheingorn has produced in her introduction a superb study of the ceremonies, rites and dramas associated with this structure.

    EDAM Reference 5, ISBN 0-918720-79-6 (clothbound), 978-0-91872-079-5 (paperback–out of print) © 1987

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  • The Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwick, and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art including Items Relevant to Early Drama

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    The Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwick, and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art including Items Relevant to Early Drama

    Clifford Davidson and Jennifer Alexander

    The study of the early art of England can be frustrating for scholars, as the destruction by iconoclasm and neglect was very thorough in certain regions. This volume seeks to aid those studying the early art, including relics and musical iconography, of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick and other Warwickshire locations. Accompanied by 71 illustrations and 2 maps, the subject lists found within provide information from records and antiquarian accounts that should prove invaluable in visualizing the dimensions of the iconography of both lost and extant early art from the region.

    EDAM Reference 4, ISBN 0-918720-63-X (clothbound), ISBN 0-918720-64-8 (paperback) © 1985

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  • Chester Art: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art including Items Relevant to Early Drama

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    Chester Art: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art including Items Relevant to Early Drama

    Sally-Beth MacLean

    This book will serve as an invaluable research tool for students and scholars with an interest in art relating to early drama, as well as those whose interests lie more in local art history, specifically that of Chester. Though it may not contain the bumper-crop of surviving subject-art as a city such as York possesses, Chester nevertheless holds much of value and interest, as the list in this book aptly demonstrates. Richly illustrated and carefully arranged, this book is a tremendous catalog of surviving subject-art and will reward any scholar who pulls it from the bookshelf.

    EDAM Reference 3, ISBN 0-918720-20-6 (clothbound), ISBN 0-918720-21-4 (paperback–out of print) © 1982