Music and the Making of Medieval Venice

Jamie L. Reuland is Assistant Professor of Music at Princeton University. Her work on the intellectual and social history of medieval music has been supported by the ACLS, Fulbright Foundation in Greece, Medieval Academy of America, and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Previously, Reuland was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University.

• List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; List of musical examples; Acknowledgments; List of manuscript sigla; A note on dating; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. An Audible Empire: 1. Echoes of empire: the Laudes in medieval Venetian Crete; 2. Unsilenced archives: icons, advocates, and the Akathistos hymn; Part II. The Fictive City: 3. Singing effigies: an annunciation drama for the Festa delle Marie; Part III. Relics and the Horizons of Musical Representation: 4. Narrative fragments: vespers for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics; 5. History lessons: matins for the apparition of Saint Mark's relics; 6. Sound documents: the midcentury chancery motet; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

'This is one of the most important and original books in medieval studies to appear in recent years. The history of music in Venice in the period from 1200 to 1400 has remained relatively unexplored until now. Reuland's discoveries show just how important a role music played in the political and colonial development of the city. The beautifully written book will be of equal interest to musicologists, historians, and art historians. A major tour de force.' Anna Maria Busse Berger, University of California, Davis