LEADER 04738nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910817193603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0388-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203882 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418231 035 $a(OCoLC)859160851 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748498 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053310 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11557919 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053310 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11114599 035 $a(PQKB)11498478 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26110 035 $a(DE-B1597)449722 035 $a(OCoLC)979622865 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203882 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442109 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748498 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682521 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442109 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418231 100 $a20070903d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSinging the new song $eliteracy and liturgy in late medieval England /$fKatherine Zieman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 225 0 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51239-6 311 0 $a0-8122-4051-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-284) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$t1 Ex ore infantium: Literacy and Elementary Educational Practices in Late Medieval England --$t2 Singing the New Song: Literacy, Clerical Identity, and the Discourse of Choral Community --$t3 Legere et non intellegere negligere est: The Politics of Understanding --$t4 Extragrammatical Literacies and the Latinity of the Laity --$t5 "Že lomes žat y labore with": Vernacular Poetics, Clergie, and the Repertoire of Reading and Singing in Piers Plowman --$t6 Reading, Singing, and Publication in The Canterbury Tales --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word. Where previous studies have described how writing comes to supplant oral forms of communication or how it objectifies relations of power formerly transacted through ritual and ceremony, Zieman shifts the critical gaze to the ritual performance of written texts in the liturgy-effectively changing the focus from writing to reading. Beginning with a history of the elementary educational institution known to modern scholars as the "song school," Zieman shows the continued centrality of liturgical and devotional texts to the earliest stages of literacy training and spiritual formation. Originally, these schools were created to provide liturgical training for literate adult performers who had already mastered the grammatical arts. From the late thirteenth century on, however, the attention and resources of both lay and clerical patrons came to be devoted specifically to young boys, centering on their function as choristers. Because choristers needed to be trained before they received instruction in grammar, the liturgical skills of reading and singing took on a different meaning. This shift in priorities, Zieman argues, is paradigmatic of broader cultural changes, in which increased interest in liturgical performance and varying definitions attached to "reading and singing" caused these practices to take on a life of their own, unyoked from their original institutional settings of monastery and cathedral. Unmoored from the context of the choral community, reading and singing developed into discrete, portable skills that could be put to use in a number of contexts, sacred and secular, Latin and vernacular. Ultimately, they would be carried into a wider public sphere, where they would be transformed into public modes of discourse appropriated by vernacular writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland. 606 $aLiteracy$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aBooks and reading$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aSinging$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aSinging$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 615 0$aLiteracy$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aSinging$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aSinging$xHistory 676 $a302.22440942 700 $aZieman$b Katherine$01631326 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817193603321 996 $aSinging the new song$93970066 997 $aUNINA