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Bowen, Nancy E.

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Chaucer and the harp: Stringed musical instruments in "The Canterbury Tales".

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Chaucer and the harp: Stringed musical instruments in "The Canterbury Tales"./
Author:	Bowen, Nancy E.
Description:	369 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Nancy E. van Deusen.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-01A.
Subject:	Literature, Medieval. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3246643

Chaucer and the harp: Stringed musical instruments in "The Canterbury Tales".
Bowen, Nancy E.

Chaucer and the harp: Stringed musical instruments in "The Canterbury Tales". - 369 p.

Adviser: Nancy E. van Deusen.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2007.

The traditions surrounding stringed musical instruments previously have not been investigated in the depth that Chaucer likely knew them. Two traditions concerning stringed musical instruments are explored herein and applied to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Sources from antiquity and the early Middle Ages are emphasized, although examples from later medieval vernacular writers are also included.Subjects--Topical Terms:

571675
Literature, Medieval.

Chaucer and the harp: Stringed musical instruments in "The Canterbury Tales".
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245 1 0 $a Chaucer and the harp: Stringed musical instruments in "The Canterbury Tales".
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2007.
520 $a The traditions surrounding stringed musical instruments previously have not been investigated in the depth that Chaucer likely knew them. Two traditions concerning stringed musical instruments are explored herein and applied to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Sources from antiquity and the early Middle Ages are emphasized, although examples from later medieval vernacular writers are also included.
520 $a The introduction briefly summarizes previous Chaucerian criticism related to this topic and how the present study differs from what has gone before. The methodology involves using the roots of Latin words related to stringed musical instruments to discover references to these instruments in Chaucer's Latin sources. The discussion also addresses how ancient writings were transmitted to the Middle Ages.
520 $a Part I presents a synopsis of sources named in Chaucer's work which deal with stringed musical instruments. These sources include the ancient Greeks, the Old Testament, Church Fathers, classical Latin writers, and early medieval writers. Manuscripts verify that these sources were accessible to Chaucer and comprised a typical medieval education.
520 $a Part II demonstrates how stringed musical instruments represent celebration and peace. Examples of negative, in malo associations are presented to counter arguments that Chaucer simply inverts the in bono meanings of these instruments in his tales. The tradition is then applied to pilgrims and characters in The Canterbury Tales. Part II concludes with the "lyre-less" tradition and Chaucer's use of it.
520 $a Part III deals with stringed musical instruments and the body: the body in general, both animal and human; women's sexual bodies; the death of the body; and the body of Christ. Examples in literature and art from ancient Greece through the later Middle Ages illustrate these aspects, and Chaucer's poetry is analyzed with regard to them.
520 $a In conclusion, stringed musical instruments in Chaucer are not merely signs or background; instead, they function as figurae. These figurae have more implications for and carry substantially more weight in Chaucer's poetry than has previously been recognized. Furthermore, they are largely derived from Platonic or Neoplatonic philosophy.
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