Representing History, 900-1300: Art, Music, History.

Representing History, 9001300Art, Music, History\nAuthor(s): Robert A. Maxwell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271036366, 978-0271036366\nSynopsis\nModern scholarship, particularly historical studies, has long acknowledged the importance of the past to medieval conceptions of the present. This volume brings art history and music into dialogue with historical studies. The essays draw out the strategies shared by these fields in the realm of historical representation. How was the creative representation of past practicesin illuminated manuscripts, monumental sculpture, and architecture, as well as in musical notation, motet composition, and performanceunderstood as both a historical and historicizing act? What kinds of relationships did composers, patrons, chroniclers, and musicians entertain with their predecessors? Historical studies have shown how chroniclers and annalists re.