Description: An interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the non-specialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level, this volume contains 22 essays examining how the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present.
Brief description: Andrew Albin is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University. His scholarship in the fi eld of historical sound studies examines embodied listening practices, sound's meaningful contexts, and the lived aural experiences of historical hearers--in a word, the sonorous past--as an object of critical inquiry. His work has been recognized with grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Medieval Academy of America, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He is the author of Richard Rolle's Melody of Love: A Study and Translation with Manuscript and Musical Contexts (PIMS, 2018).
Review Quotes: This is a significant contribution to medieval studies and has already generated discussion among medievalists debating disciplinary politics.-- "Journal of Medieval Worlds"