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Liturgical life and Latin learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425 : inscription and illumination in the choir books of a North German Dominican convent

Title
Liturgical life and Latin learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425 : inscription and illumination in the choir books of a North German Dominican convent / Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, Susan Marti, and Margot E. Fassler.
Author
Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957-
Publication
  • Münster : Aschendorff Verlag, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Schlotheuber, Eva
  • Marti, Susan
  • Fassler, Margot Elsbeth
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.), sponsoring body.
Description
2 volumes (xiii, 781; ix, 634 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, map, music, plans; 32 cm
Summary
"Written by an international team consisting of two art historians, a historian, and a musicologist, this study explores the intellectual, scribal, artistic and musical culture of the Dominican nuns of Paradies from a variety of perspectives. Taking as its subject a little-known group of fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century liturgical manuscripts from the Dominican convent of Paradies bei Soest (Westphalia), the book also offers a revisionary account of the development of the Dominican order in late medieval Germany. Two antiphonaries, three graduals and additional fragments made both for and by the nuns testify to a self-conscious liturgical culture closely tied to the development of the Dominican order's female branch ...."--Back cover.
Alternative Title
  • Liturgical life & Latin learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425
  • Inscription and illumination in the choir books of a North German Dominican convent
Subject
  • Catholic Church > Liturgy > Manuscripts
  • Dominikanerinnenkloster Paradiese (Soest, Germany)
  • Catholic Church
  • Graduals (Liturgical books)
  • Sequences (Liturgy)
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Themes, motives
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Germany > Soest
  • Scriptoria > Germany > Soest
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
  • Liturgics
  • Scriptoria
  • Germany > Soest
Genre/Form
Manuscripts.
Note
  • Published with the support of the Suzanne and James Mellor Prize of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Bibliography (note)
  • Contains bibliographical references (volume II, pages 529-610) and indexes.
Contents
Volume I. The Foundation and Growth of the Monastery -- The Extant Manuscripts from Paradies -- The Sequences of Paradies Bei Soest -- The Shape of the Liturgy in the Gradual D 11 -- The Cult of the Saints at Paradies Bei Soest -- The Art of Inscription in the Gradual D 11 -- Volume II. Appendices -- Full-Page Illustrations.
Call Number
JFG 17-341
ISBN
  • 9783402130728
  • 3402130726
OCLC
954018527
Author
Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957- author.
Title
Liturgical life and Latin learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425 : inscription and illumination in the choir books of a North German Dominican convent / Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, Susan Marti, and Margot E. Fassler.
Publisher
Münster : Aschendorff Verlag, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Contains bibliographical references (volume II, pages 529-610) and indexes.
Added Author
Schlotheuber, Eva, author.
Marti, Susan, author.
Fassler, Margot Elsbeth, author.
National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.), sponsoring body.
Cover Title
Liturgical life & Latin learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425
Research Call Number
JFG 17-341
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