Music, body, and desire in medieval culture. Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer, 2001, 496 p., 24 ill., hardback. -

Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European middle Ages. The author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh.