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Medieval Cantors and Their Craft: Music, Liturgy and the Shaping of History, 800-1500 (Writing History in the Middle Ages)
Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis
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Description for Medieval Cantors and Their Craft: Music, Liturgy and the Shaping of History, 800-1500 (Writing History in the Middle Ages)
Hardcover. First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval cantor. Num Pages: 392 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; AVGC2; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
York Medieval Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
391
Place of Publication
York, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903153673
SKU
V9781903153673
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Reviews for Medieval Cantors and Their Craft: Music, Liturgy and the Shaping of History, 800-1500 (Writing History in the Middle Ages)
The contributions, especially those regarding women, demonstrate the patience and careful attention necessary to flesh out the tendrils of evidence for non-preserved and/or long forgotten history. This volume has much to offer students and scholars of monastic history, liturgical history, and medievalists. MAGISTRA