Musikalische und liturgische Kreativität in der Umgebung Heinrichs II
(2024)
Book Chapter
All Outputs (17)
The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance (2023)
Journal Article
The medieval cult of Ste Foy inspired several sets of liturgical chants, or historiae, including at least two that were probably made for use at Conques in the early eleventh century. Whilst it is widely understood that historia chants belonged withi... Read More about The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance.
Towards a Definition of the “Romano-German Pontifical” and Back (2023)
Book Chapter
Musical Portraits of St Guthlac (2020)
Book Chapter
Henry II, liturgical patronage and the birth of the ‘Romano‐German Pontifical’ (2020)
Journal Article
Variously acclaimed as coepiscopus, saint and Mönchskönig, Henry II of Germany has always had a reputation as a quasi‐religious figure. This article goes a step further, appending to his résumé the creation of the wildly successful liturgical traditi... Read More about Henry II, liturgical patronage and the birth of the ‘Romano‐German Pontifical’.
Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici (2019)
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This volume offers the first modern edition and study of the liturgical writings of Bern, abbot of Reichenau (d. 1048). Dealing with some of the more ordinary questions facing medieval worshipping communities – such as how to find the correct date fo... Read More about Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici.
Behind Hartker's Antiphoner: neglected fragments of the earliest Sankt Gallen tonary (2018)
Journal Article
Prior to the famous Hartker Antiphoner (Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 390/391), copied in Sankt Gallen c. 1000, there survives no complete, fully-notated witness to the Romano-Frankish chant repertory for the Office. Scholars have long known a... Read More about Behind Hartker's Antiphoner: neglected fragments of the earliest Sankt Gallen tonary.
Wild Strawberries from Reichenau: Ruminations on Authority and Difference in Eleventh-Century “Gregorian” Chant (2017)
Journal Article
One of the paradoxes of Gregorian chant is the way in which written sources become ever more plentiful across the Middle Ages while commentaries on its cultural and intellectual status take the opposite direction, becoming rare after the ninth centur... Read More about Wild Strawberries from Reichenau: Ruminations on Authority and Difference in Eleventh-Century “Gregorian” Chant.
Troping in Mainz and the (Re-)Construction of Metropolitan Identity (2016)
Book Chapter
The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050 (2015)
Book
This highly original study examines the history and religious life of the Ottonian Church through its ritual books. With forensic attention to the writing and design of four important manuscripts from the city of Mainz - a musician's troper, a priest... Read More about The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050.
Questioning the Authority of Vogel and Elze’s Pontifical Romano-Germanique (2015)
Book Chapter
Vogel and Elze tended to defer to Andrieu's wisdom on most matters of interpretation, giving an outward impression of absolute consensus when inwardly they may have felt unqualified to disagree. And as Andrieu's remarkable hypotheses have been replic... Read More about Questioning the Authority of Vogel and Elze’s Pontifical Romano-Germanique.
St Edmund Between Liturgy and Hagiography (2014)
Book Chapter
The Composition of English Saints’ Offices in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (2013)
Conference Proceeding