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Medieval cantors and their craft : music, liturgy and the shaping of history, 800-1500

Title: Medieval cantors and their craft : music, liturgy and the shaping of history, 800-1500 / edited by Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, A. B. Kraebel and Margot E. Fassler.
Publication: Woodbridge : York Medieval Press, 2017.

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Description

xvii, 370 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West. The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and monasteries were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations season by season, managing the library and preparing manuscripts and other sources necessary to sustain the liturgical framework of time, and promoting the cults of saints. Crucially, their duties also often included committing the past to writing, from simple annals and chronicles to more fulsome histories, necrologies, and cartularies, thereby ensuring that towns, churches, families, and individuals could be commemorated for generations to come. The contributions here seek to address the fundamental question of how the range of cantors' activities can help us to understand the many different ways in which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated across the middle ages. Cantors, as this volume makes clear, shaped the communal experience of the past in the Middle Ages; the essays are studies of constructions, both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written records.

Series Statement

Writing History in the Middle Ages ; volume 3

Uniform Title

Writing history in the Middle Ages ; v. 3.

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

Papers from a conference held October 2013 at the Notre Dame London Centre.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The Carolingian period. Historia: some lexicographical considerations / David Ganz ; Liturgy and history in the early Middle Ages / Rosamond McKitterick ; Notker Bibliothecarius / Susan Rankin ; Singing history: chant in Ekkehard IV's Casus sancti Galli / Lori Kruckenberg -- The eleventh century. Adémar de Chabannes (989-1034) as musicologist / James Grier ; Cantor or canonicus? In search of musicians and liturgists in eleventh-century Constance / Henry Parkes ; Shaping the histroical Dunstan: many lives and a musical office / Margot E. Fassler ; Female monastic cantors and sacristans in central medieval England: four sketches / Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis -- England in the twelfth century. Cantor, sacrist or prior? The provision of books in Anglo-Norman England / Teresa Webber ; Symeon of Durham as cantor and hsitorian at Durham Cathedral priorym c. 1090-1129 / Charles C. Rozier ; Reshaping history in the cult of Æbbe of Coldingham / Lauren L. Whitnah ; William of Malmesbury as a cantor-historian / Paul Antony Hayward ; Lex orandi, lex scribendi? The role of historiography in the liturgical life of William of Malmesbury / Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn ; Of the making of little books: the minor works of William of Newburgh / A.B. Kraebel -- On the continent: five case studies. The cantors of the Holy Sepulchre and their contribution to Crusade history and Frankish identity / Cara Aspesi ; Shaping liturgy, shaping history: a cantor-historian from twelfth-century Peterhausen / Alison I. Beach ; The Roman liturgical tradition according to a twelfth-century Roman cantor / Peter Jeffery ; A life in hours: Goswin of Bossut's office for Arnulf of Villers / Anna de Bakker ; Writing history to make history: Johannes Meyer's chronicles of reform / Claire Taylor Jones.

Call Number

JFE 17-4453

ISBN

9781903153673
1903153670

LCCN

2017561092

OCLC

960462004

Title

Medieval cantors and their craft : music, liturgy and the shaping of history, 800-1500 / edited by Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, A. B. Kraebel and Margot E. Fassler.

Publisher

Woodbridge : York Medieval Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Writing History in the Middle Ages ; volume 3

Writing history in the Middle Ages ; v. 3.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

500-1500

Added Author

Bugyis, Katie Ann-Marie, editor.

Kraebel, A. B. (Andrew Brock), 1983- editor.

Fassler, Margot Elsbeth, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-4453

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