Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Writing Sonic Bodies 1
5. Chapter 1. Musica Celestis and Canor: Angelic Song in Speculative Music Theory and Rollean Mysticism 13
6. Chapter 2. Touching Music: Walter Hilton, Angels’ Song, and Synaesthesia 29
7. Chapter 3. Attending to The Boke of Margery Kempe 61
8. Chapter 4. Music, Amicitia, and Carthusian Mystical Diaries 91
9. Chapter 5. Piers Plowman, the Sound-Object, and the Singing Community 116
10. Chapter 6. Disability, Music, and Chaucer’s Advental Bodies 146
11. Coda 169
12. Appendix. A Short Exposition of the Manuscripts in Chapter 4 173
13. Notes 179
14. Bibliography 233
15. Index 259