Addressing questions about the musical life in English nunneries in the later Middle Ages, Yardley pieces together a mosaic of nunnery musical life, where even the smallest convents sang the monastic offices on a daily basis and many of the larger houses celebrated the late medieval liturgy in all of its complexity.
| ISBN: | 9781403962997 |
| Publication date: | 12th August 2008 |
| Author: | Anne Bagnall Yardley |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 326 pages |
| Series: | The New Middle Ages |
| Genres: |
European history: medieval period, middle ages Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Ancient history European history Music |