The songs of entertainers and the songs of the angels: vernacular lyric fragments in Odo of Cheriton's "Sermones de festis"
Millett, Bella (1995) The songs of entertainers and the songs of the angels: vernacular lyric fragments in Odo of Cheriton's "Sermones de festis". Medium Aevum, 64, 17-36.
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The article takes as its starting-point Siegfried Wenzel's discussion of John Dygoun's use of the apparently secular lyric fragment 'At a sprynge-wel' to refer to the Virgin, and the broader question he raises of whether the moralization of such lyrics by medieval preachers indicates an 'awareness of a distinction between a profane and a sacred world of discourse'; the use of fragments of secular lyric (including one, 'A la funtaine', with similarities to 'At a sprynge-wel', and an otherwise unrecorded 'alba') in Odo of Cheriton's early thirteenth-century Sermones de festis shows Odo consciously 'converting the lyrics he uses from profane entertainment to mnemonic links between this world and the next'.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0025-8385 (print) |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity P Language and Literature > PR English literature P Language and Literature > PC Romance languages |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > English |
| Item ID: | 67596 |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2009 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 13:12 |
| Contributors: | Millett, Bella (Author) |
| Date: | 1995 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | enm@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/67596 |
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