Medieval Dance - Professor Christopher Page

Professor Page discusses the place of dancing in medieval society, specifically the dancing that occurred outside of the courts:

Visual art and literary sources give a wealth of material about dancing in the courts of the medieval world, but Professor Page is more interested in the dances of the ordinary people. Evidence of these ‘Carols’ is more limited and comes from the religious writings that believed it was vice.

Christopher Page is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is an internationally renowned performer and writer, as well as being an experienced presenter through BBC Radio. He holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology..

A series of lectures concerned with the place of musical sound and art in medieval imagination and experience: its relation to patterns of fear, delight and awe. The setting for the lectures will be one of the few medieval churches of London to survive the Great Fire of 1666: St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, Holborn.

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