Medieval Institute Pub.

Ars musice.

Writing in Paris around the 1270s, Johannes grappled with finding, or making, a system of the wide range of music types, styles, and uses. He focused on three types he found there in the city: folk music, composed or measured music, and ecclesiastical music. Within that framework, he wrote a treatise that reveals much about musical thinking at the time. This Latin edition with facing pages of English translation was a collaborative project within the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Medieval Institute Publications is at Western Michigan University. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

The York Corpus Christi plays.

This large volume, comprising the complete texts of the cycle of forty-eight sacred plays performed in the medieval period during the feast of Corpus Christi in York England, provides students with a clear, notated edition of this fifteenth century literary, religious and theatrical document. The volume includes a historical introduction and notes on context and the text itself, as well as an appendix on dialects and idiom used in the manuscript. Clifford Davidson is professor emeritus of English and medieval studies at Western Michigan University. Medieval Institute Publications is at Western Michigan University. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)