TY - JOUR
AU - de Valk, Reinier
AB - session found its conclusion in Jack Hartnell’s ‘gruesomem anuscript illuminations regarding the information they but gratifying’ study of a medical scroll, which resemblemig d ht disclose about the medieval performance practices in the moment of its unfurling the surgical opening of bod- of their associated texts: read and/or staged. ies depicted in detail on both of its sides. From Italy to Iceland, from Machaut to Wolfram von The concluding session then focused on instantiations Eschenbach, from Edward the Confessor to Charles V, of transformed and transformative performance. David from Beneventan chant to 15th-century plays, from manu- Bowe explored the seductive sweetness of the sirena scripts, liturgy, texts, images and music, to sound: this vast balba’s song in Dante’s Purgatorio and demonstrated the range of research interests was united under the banner of ways in which it served to transform both Dante-pilgrim Performing Medieval Text—and the fact that such a pleth- and Dante-poet. Unlike Bowe’s contribution, the co - nfer ora of diverse subjects did not result in an incoherent, ence’s final paper given by Francisca Gale studied not heterogenic conference provocatively emphasizes the util- transformative processes but one of their literary resulits: ty of studying medieval repertories from a performative 
TI - Celebrating Dowland’s 450th
JO - Early Music
DO - 10.1093/em/cat070
DA - 2013-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/celebrating-dowland-s-450th-pwBtX2XQMb
SP - 538
EP - 540
VL - 41
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -