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Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 69742_AHTE_MEfm_iv-xxx.qxd 9/21/04 1:49 PM Page v \ CONTENTS ABOUT THE BOOK . ix Jean Deschamps . 57 Suger . 58 CONTRIBUTORS . xi William of Sens . 58 ERA OVERVIEW. xv Henry Yevele . 59 DOCUMENTARY SOURCES . 59 CHRONOLOGY OF WORLD EVENTS . xix CHAPTER 2: DANCE CHAPTER 1: ARCHITECTURE IMPORTANT EVENTS . 62 AND DESIGN OVERVIEW . 64 IMPORTANT EVENTS . 2 TOPICS IN DANCE OVERVIEW . 5 Dancing in Medieval Life . 65 Sacred and Symbolic Dance. 67 TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Conventional Dance Formations and Steps . 70 The Influence of the Carolingians . 7 Popular Dances . 73 Ottonian and Norman Architecture . 13 Additional Dance Types . 79 Geometry and Planning. 19 Choreographed Dancing . 81 Construction Techniques. 22 Dancing Masters . 81 Monastic Architecture . 27 The Basse Danse and the Bassadanza . 84 Pilgrimage Architecture . 34 The Ballo . 86 A New Vision: Saint-Denis and French Church Architecture in the Twelfth SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE Century . 37 Antonio Cornazano. 88 Immediate Impact: Notre-Dame and Domenico da Piacenza . 88 Chartres . 39 Guglielmo Ebreo . 89 The Gothic in England . 41 Raimbaut de Vaqueiras . 89 The Illuminated Church and the Ippolita Maria Sforza . 90 Rayonnant Style . 45 DOCUMENTARY SOURCES . 90 The Architecture of Security and Power . 49 The Architecture of Daily Life . 54 CHAPTER 3: FASHION SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE IMPORTANT EVENTS . 94 Bernard of Clairvaux. 57 OVERVIEW . 96 v 69742_AHTE_MEfm_iv-xxx.qxd 9/21/04 1:49 PM Page vi Contents TOPICS IN FASHION CHAPTER 5: MUSIC Fashion and Cultural Change. 98 IMPORTANT EVENTS. 212 Peasant Costume . 101 OVERVIEW. 214 Academic, Clerical, and Religious Dress. 105 Armor and Heraldry . 109 TOPICS IN MUSIC The Rise of Courtly Costume. 111 Musical Performance. 215 Early Aristocratic Dress for Women . 114 Music in Private and Public . 218 Intercultural Influences and Regional Musical Instruments . 219 Distinctions . 116 Plainsong and the Monophonic Tradition . 223 The New Silhouette for Aristocratic Men. 121 Additions to the Sacred Repertory. 226 A New Look for Women. 125 The Monophonic Secular Tradition . 228 The Spread of the Age of Fashion. 128 Religious Music of the Layman . 232 Dress Codes and Anti-Fashion . 130 The Earliest Polyphonic Music . 234 Guilds and Confraternities . 134 Motets and Canons. 235 Polyphonic Secular Music and National SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE Styles . 238 Thomas Conecte. 137 Dufay and the Late Medieval Ceremonial Eleanor of Aquitaine . 139 Motet. 242 Francis of Assisi . 139 Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Philip the Bold. 140 Dame. 243 Richard II . 140 The Cyclic Mass Tradition: Missa Caput. 244 DOCUMENTARY SOURCES . 141 Missa Se la face ay pale . 245 The Mechanics of Music: Scales and CHAPTER 4: LITERATURE Treatises . 245 IMPORTANT EVENTS. 144 Systems of Notation . 249 OVERVIEW. 147 SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE TOPICS IN LITERATURE Adam de la Halle . 251 Identity and Authority. 149 Bernart de Ventadorn . 251 Heroic Narrative. 153 Guillaume Dufay . 251 Heroic Literature in Medieval Scandinavia . 155 Guido of Arezzo . 252 The Heroic Narrative in France . 158 Hildegard of Bingen . 252 The Heroic Narrative in Spain . 161 Francesco Landini. 252 Origins, Definitions, and Categories of Guillaume de Machaut . 253 Romance . 163 Notker Balbulus . 253 Courtly Love.. 166 Pietrobono de Burzellis . 254 Arthurian Romance. 169 Philippe de Vitry . 254 Translatio Studii: Sources for Romance . 173 Walther von der Vogelweide . 254 The Non-Narrative Lyric Impulse. 177 DOCUMENTARY SOURCES . 255 Medieval Allegory and Philosophical Texts . 183 Dante Alighieri. 186 CHAPTER 6: PHILOSOPHY The Medieval Dream Vision . 189 IMPORTANT EVENTS. 257 William Langland and Piers Plowman . 192 OVERVIEW. 260 The Medieval Story Collection . 195 TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY The Canterbury Tales . 199 Christine de Pizan. 201 The Foundations: Augustine and Boethius . 261 Rationalism in The Age of Charlemagne . 264 SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE Anselm of Canterbury . 265 Giovanni Boccaccio. 204 The Problem Of Universals . 266 Geoffrey Chaucer . 205 The Schools of the Twelfth Century . 268 Chrétien de Troyes . 205 Philosophy Among the Muslims and the Dante Alighieri. 206 Jews . 270 Marie de France . 207 The Universities, Textbooks, and the DOCUMENTARY SOURCES . 208 Flowering of Scholasticism . 275 vi Arts and Humanities Through the Eras: Medieval Europe (814–1450) 69742_AHTE_MEfm_iv-xxx.qxd 9/21/04 1:49 PM Page vii Contents The Rediscovery Of Aristotle . 275 Famine, the Black Death, and the Afterlife . 366 Oxford Philosophy . 276 Mysticism and Modern Devotion . 368 Latin Averroism . 278 SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE Thomism. 279 Thomas Becket. 371 The Conservative Reaction and The Gregory VII . 372 Condemnation of 1277 . 281 Innocent III . ..