Fiona Griffiths and Kathryn Starkey, eds., Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts. (Sense, Matter, and Medium: New Approaches to Medieval Literary and Material Culture 1.) Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. Pp. xiii, 286; 20 color plates, many black-and-white figures, 2 musical examples, and 1 table. $89.99. ISBN: 978-3-1105-6234-7. Table of contents available online at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110563443/html.

Speculum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 505-507
Author(s):  
Margaret Graves
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Black And White ◽  
New Approaches

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Candace Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Status ◽  
White Women ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Amateur Musicians ◽  
Musical Practices

Locating women’s musical practices in the performance of gentility provides one path forward in reconciling archival evidence (binder’s volumes and other aspects of material culture that are often labeled ephemera) with existing music histories because gentility, unlike social status, belonged to no single group of people. Gentility crossed class boundaries and allowed black and white women to define or redefine their status during a time of great social change. The Introduction clarifies the use of the term gentility in this book and contextualizes its role in the performance of culture by amateur musicians in the parlor.

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