Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe

Andrew Albin, Fordham University, USA Hélène Bernier-Farella, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France Ghislain Casas, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France Marisa Galvez, Stanford University, USA Cédric Giraud, University of Lorraine, France University of Groningen, Netherlands Bruno Lemesle, University of Burgundy, France Andreea Marculescu, University of California, Irvine, USA Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago, USA Matthew G. Shoaf, Ursinus College, USA Robert Stanton, Boston College, USA Anna Zayaruznaya, Yale University, USA

Editor's Introduction; Irit Ruth KleimanPART I: THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF THE HUMAN: VOICE AND LANGUAGE1. Locutio Angelica, or Language without Voice; Ghislain Casas2. Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles; Robert StantonPART II: THE SOCIAL BODY: VOICE, AUTHORITY, AND COMMUNITY3. Ritual Voices and Social Silence: Funerary Lamentations in Byzantium ; Hélène Bernier-Farella4. Viva voce: Voice and Voicelessness Among Twelfth-Century Clerics ; Bruno Lemesle5. Abelard and Heloise between Voice and Silence; Babette S. HellemansPART III: RHETORIC AND SUBJECTIVITY: POLYPHONIC VOICES6. The Voice of the Unrepentant Crusader: "Aler m'estuet" by the Châtelain d'Arras; Marisa Galvez7. Margery's "Noyse" and Distributed Expressivity; Julie Orlemanski8. The Voice of the Possessed in Late Medieval French Theater; Andreea MarculescuPART IV: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES: REPRESENTATIONS OF HUMAN AND DIVINE VOICES9. "Sanz note" & "sanz mesure": Towards a Pre-Modern Aesthetics of the Dirge; Anna Zayaruznaya10. Listening for canor in Richard Rolle's Melos amoris; Andrew Albin11. Mary between Voice and Voicelessness: The Latin Meditationes of Bernard de Rosier; Cédric Giraud12. Picturing the Voiceless in an Age of Visible Speech; Matthew ShoafBibliography