{"product_id":"the-cantigas-de-santa-maria-power-and-persuasion-at-the-alfonsine-court-hardcover","title":"The Cantigas de Santa Maria: Power and Persuasion at the Alfonsine Court - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry T. Drummond\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlfonso X (1221-84) ruled over the Crown of Castile from 1252 until his death. Known as \"the Wise,\" he oversaw the production of a wealth of literature in his scriptorium. One of the most impressive of these literary outputs is the collection of songs known as the \u003cem\u003eCantigas de Santa Maria\u003c\/em\u003e, which by most counts comprises 429 songs preserved in four manuscripts. The miracle songs (or \u003cem\u003ecantigas de miragre\u003c\/em\u003e) form the focus of this book. While the \u003cem\u003eCantigas\u003c\/em\u003e have been the subject of much scholarly attention, only a handful of studies have looked at the repertory through an interdisciplinary lens. Fewer still have probed how the \u003cem\u003eCantigas\u003c\/em\u003e use the power of song as a communicative medium, one that functions as a social tool within the erudite environment of the Alfonsine court. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers a new perspective to the song collection, probing how the \u003cem\u003eCantigas\u003c\/em\u003e use their music and text, together with rhetorical devices, to communicate with their desired audience. Author Henry T. Drummond builds upon previous methodologies, adopting a novel and holistic assessment of the songs' melodies, poetic features, and narrative logic to assess a wide selection of songs. He presents a nuanced understanding of a song form that effectively conveys its narratives to its listeners via a diverse combination of tools, embracing medieval rhetoric, rhyme-based play, and song's inherent ludic potential. Such devices, Drummond argues, allow for the \u003cem\u003eCantigas\u003c\/em\u003e to loom large as propaganda pieces, designed to dignify Alfonso X through an elaborately devised courtly ritual.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenry T. Drummond\u003c\/strong\u003e is a postdoctoral researcher at the KU Leuven and a participant in the cross-institutional \"Sound of Music\" FWO-funded project, which analyses and valorizes large bodies of liturgical chant repertory through digital technology. He completed his DPhil in Music in 2018 at the University of Oxford. His research interests include vernacular song of the later Middle Ages, musical mobility across medieval Europe, music and liturgy, and digital humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.8 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751108542752,"sku":"9780197670590","price":188.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/245afaab3ed3ff1f6b8f53871c1cd4d5.webp?v=1779964451","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-cantigas-de-santa-maria-power-and-persuasion-at-the-alfonsine-court-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}