Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland
Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland
From music written in praise of Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and English saints to the selection of Gospel readings by the Dominicans, this book introduces readers to the richness of medieval liturgical culture from across Britain and Ireland. Each of its three main sections opens with a chapter that offers a contextual frame for its key themes. With contributions from leading experts in pre-Reformation music and its sources, the book's focus on Insular liturgy – rather than that of only one part of Britain or Ireland – allows readers to learn about the devotional, political and creative networks at play in shaping liturgical practices: personal, secular, monastic, lay, and professional. The opening part includes broader discussions of Uses, including that of Salisbury, and case studies explore Insular witnesses to devotional activities in honour of both local cults and widely known figures, including St Columba, St Margaret, St Katherine, and the Magi.
- A wide-ranging exploration of the variety of regional and local liturgical practices across medieval Britain and Ireland
- In challenging the more usual centre-periphery approach, it considers a range of monastic and diocesan networks for liturgical practice across the Insular region
- Emphasizes the plurality of liturgical design, development and experience in Britain and Ireland, c.1050–1550
- Connecting chapters by the editors place the individual essays in their wider historical context
Reviews & endorsements
'Overall, this collection of essays presents extremely stimulating reflections on the complexity of insular liturgical culture … The volume as a whole values the variability of the sources, including their inconsistencies, revisions, and even contradictions, an approach that can be applied well beyond the disciplines of music and liturgy.' Catherine Saucier, Le Moyen Âge
Product details
August 2024Paperback
9781108717496
378 pages
244 × 170 × 20 mm
0.654kg
Not yet published - available from July 2025
Table of Contents
- Part I. Liturgical Texts and their Contexts:
- 1. Textual witnesses to insular liturgies Ann Buckley and Lisa Colton
- 2. Contexts for the late medieval pontifical of Anian, bishop of Bangor: Issues of the 'Local' and the 'More-Than-Local' John Harper
- 3. Insular uses other than that of Salisbury John Caldwell
- 4. Saints and their sung texts in manuscripts of the Sarum Sanctorale: The case of Margaret, Virgin and Martyr Matthew Cheung Salisbury
- Part II. Patterns in the Veneration of Regional and Local Saints in Insular Liturgical Sources:
- 5. Introduction to Part II Ann Buckley and Lisa Colton
- 6. Plainchant offices for the saints of medieval Britain and Ireland: Some reflections on their local and national significance David Hiley
- 7. Insular saints in Irish Sarum sources of the office Ann Buckley
- 8. Responsory verses for Irish and insular saints: Medieval singer-composers at work Barbara Haggh-Huglo
- 9. Pater Columba: The Irish and Scottish offices of St Columba of Iona (Colum Cille) Ann Buckley
- Part III. Textual Witnesses to Insular-Continental Networks:
- 10. Introduction to Part III Ann Buckley and Lisa Colton
- 11. Nation, Identity and the Liturgical Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Twelfth-Century England James J. Blasina
- 12. The Dominicans and their Identity in Medieval Britain and Ireland: Evidence from Dominican Gospel Lections Eleanor J. Giraud
- 13. Liturgy and Devotion in Insular Witnesses to the Cult of the Three Kings of Cologne Lisa Colton
- Bibliography.
