The songs of entertainers and the songs of the angels: vernacular lyric fragments in Odo of Cheriton's "Sermones de festis"
The songs of entertainers and the songs of the angels: vernacular lyric fragments in Odo of Cheriton's "Sermones de festis"
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'.
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Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
1995
Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
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, .
Abstract
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'.
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