Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Roy A. Rappaport. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.536 pp.

Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

Entrainment, broadly defined, is a phenomenon in which two or more independent rhythmic processes synchronize with each other. To illuminate the significance of entrainment for various directions of music research and promote a nuanced understanding of the concept among ethnomusicologists, this publication opens with an exposition of entrainment research in various disciplines, from physics to linguistics and psychology, while systematically introducing basic concepts that are directly relevant to musical entrainment. Topics covered include consideration of self-synchrony and interpersonal synchrony in musical performance, humans’ innate propensities to entrain, the influence of cultural and personal factors on entrainment, the numerous functions of musical entrainment in individual health, socialization, and cultural identification, and a presentation of methodologies and analytical techniques. Finally, some case studies illustrating one methodological strand, that of chronometric analysis, exemplify how the application of the entrainment concept might lead to an understanding of music making and music perception as an integrated, embodied and interactive process.

The concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology

1. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 2. INTELLECTUAL CENTRES 3. BOOKS AND LIBRARIES 4. THE REVIVAL OF THE LATIN CLASSICS 5. THE LATIN LANGUAGE 6. LATIN POETRY 7. THE REVIVAL OF JURISPRUDENCE 8. HISTORICAL WRITING 9. THE TRANSLATORS FROM GREEK AND ARABIC 10. THE REVIVAL OF SCIENCE 11. THE REVIVAL OF PHILOSOPHY 12. THE BEGINNINGS OF UNIVERSITIES INDEX

The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century.

Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. Catherine Bell

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In time with the music: the concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology

This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuous feature of medieval intellectual life in Iceland and the Orkneys from the mid-twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. Its aim is to give a clear description of the rich poetic tradition of early Scandinavia, particularly in Iceland, where it reached its zenith, and to demonstrate the social contexts that favoured poetic composition, from the oral societies of the early Viking Age in Norway and its colonies to the devout compositions of literate Christian clerics in fourteenth-century Iceland. The author analyses the two dominant poetic modes, eddic and skaldic, giving fresh examples of their various styles and subjects; looks at the prose contexts in which most Old Norse poetry has been preserved; and discusses problems of interpretation that arise because of the poetry's mode of transmission. She is concerned throughout to link indigenous theory with practice, beginning with the pre-Christian ideology of poets as favoured by the god odinn and concluding with the Christian notion that a plain style best conveys the poet's message.

A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics

Old Norse myths, literature and society

Concubinage in anglo‐saxon england

Introduction Margaret Clunies Ross 1. Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (ca. 870-1400) and their relation to literary production Preben Meulengracht Sorensen 2. From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland Judy Quinn 3. Poetry and its changing importance in medieval Icelandic culture Kari Ellen Gade 4. Olafr Po arson hvitaskald and oral poetry in the west of Iceland ca. 1250 Gisli Sigur sson 5. The conservation and reinterpretation of myth in medieval Icelandic writings Margaret Clunies Ross 6. Medieval Iceland artes poeticae Stephen Tranter 7. A useful past: historical writing in medieval Iceland Diana Whaley 8. Sagas of Icelanders as the literary representation of a new social space Jurg Glauser 9. The contemporary sagas and their social context Gu run Nordal 10. The matter of the north: fiction and uncertain identities in thirteenth-century Iceland Torfi H. Tulinius 11. Romance in Iceland Geraldine Barnes 12. The Bible and biblical interpretation in medieval Iceland Ian Kirby 13. Sagas of saints Margaret Cormack.

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Margaret Clunies Ross

Papers

A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics

Old Norse myths, literature and society

Concubinage in anglo‐saxon england

Old Icelandic Literature and Society

Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross