The Beneventan Script

The Beneventan Script
Author: Elias Avery Lowe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1914
Genre: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN:

The Beneventan Script

The Beneventan Script
Author: Elias Avery Lowe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1980
Genre: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN:

The Beneventan Chant

The Beneventan Chant
Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1989
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521343107

Thomas Kelly's major study of the Beneventan chant reinstates one of the oldest surviving bodies of Western music: the Latin church music of southern Italy as it existed before the spread of Gregorian chant.

The Sources of Beneventan Chant

The Sources of Beneventan Chant
Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000948536

The area whose capital was the southern Lombard city of Benevento developed a culture identified with the characteristic form of writing known as the Beneventan script, which was used throughout the area and was brought to perfection at the abbey of Montecassino in the late eleventh century. This repertory, along with other now-vanished or suppressed local varieties of music, give a far richer picture of the variety of musical practice in early medieval Europe than was formerly available. Thomas Forrest Kelly has identified and collected the surviving sources of an important repertory of early medieval music; this is the so-called Beneventan Chant, used in southern Italy in the early middle ages, before the adoption there of the now-universal music known as Gregorian chant. Because it was deliberately suppressed in the course of the eleventh century, this music survives mostly in fragments and palimpsests, and the fascinating process of restoring the repertory piece by piece is told in the studies in this book. A companion volume to this collection also by Professor Kelly details the practice of Medieval music.

Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts from Spain and Southern Italy

Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts from Spain and Southern Italy
Author: Roger E. Reynolds
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000949338

Though it may not be immediately obvious why articles on topics from such distantly removed areas of western Europe - the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy - should appear in the same volume (the fourth collection by Roger Reynolds), the materials covered illustrate that they are indeed closely related, both in their differences and their similarities. Both peninsulas had their own indigenous liturgies and music (Old Spanish and Beneventan), distinctive written scripts (Visigothic and Beneventan), and legal and theological traditions, and repeatedly these worked their influence on other areas of western Europe. Although there were frequent attempts by the papacy and secular rulers from the 9th to the 13th century to suppress these distinctive traditions in both areas, elements of these nonetheless survived well into the 16th century and beyond. Despite the differences in these traditions, the articles in this volume also demonstrate through manuscript evidence the continued exchange of the distinctive customs between the Iberian peninsula and southern Italian cultures from the very early Middle Ages through the 12th century.

Law and Liturgy in the Latin Church, 5th-12th Centuries

Law and Liturgy in the Latin Church, 5th-12th Centuries
Author: Roger E. Reynolds
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040244319

The two themes brought together in this volume - the canon law and the liturgy of the early medieval Latin Church - have close links, as these articles reveal. At the basis of this lies that fact that the collections and manuscripts with which Professor Reynolds is concerned provide the source material for both fields of study. In the book particular emphasis is given to the Irish Collection canonum hibernensis and its many derivatives, to works from Carolingian Salzburg and eleventh-century Southern Italy, and to liturgical collections. The whole illustrates the need for liturgiologists to be aware of the riches in medieval legal sources, and for legal historians to take account of the wealth of liturgical material that is a principal ingredient of the law of the Church; and demonstrates how much one field can contribute to understanding the development and to the dating of the other. Les deux thèmes réunis dans ce volume - le droit canon et la liturgie de l’Eglise Latine du haut moyan-âge - ont, comme le révèle ce groupe d’articles, des liens très étroits. Ceci reposant sur le fait que les collections et manuscrits, auxquels le professeur Reynolds s’intéresse, apportent la substance se trouvant à la source de ces deux terrains d’études. Dans le livre, une importance particulière est donnée au Collectio canonum hibernensis irlandais et à ses multiples dérivations, ainsi qu’aux travaux issus de Salzburg à l’époque carolingienne à ceux provenant d’Italie méridionale au 11è s. et aux collections liturgiques. L’ensemble illustre la nésessité pour les spécialistes en liturgie d’être conscients de l’abondance de sources légales médiévales et pour les historiens du droit de tenir compte de la richesse en matière liturgique et que forme l’un des ingrédients principaux du droit de l’Eglise; il démontre aussi combien un domaine peut contribuer è la compréhension du développement et à l’assignation de date

Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Author: Benjamin Brand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107158370

The essays in this volume offer diverse, innovative approaches to medieval music and culture.

The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages

The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages
Author: Susan Boynton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231148275

In this volume, specialists in literature, theology, liturgy, manuscript studies, and history introduce the medieval culture of the Bible in Western Christianity. Emphasizing the living quality of the text and the unique literary traditions that arose from it, they show the many ways in which the Bible was read, performed, recorded, and interpreted by various groups in medieval Europe. An initial orientation introduces the origins, components, and organization of medieval Bibles. Subsequent chapters address the use of the Bible in teaching and preaching, the production and purpose of Biblical manuscripts in religious life, early vernacular versions of the Bible, its influence on medieval historical accounts, the relationship between the Bible and monasticism, and instances of privileged and practical use, as well as the various forms the text took in different parts of Europe. The dedicated merging of disciplines, both within each chapter and overall in the book, enable readers to encounter the Bible in much the same way as it was once experienced: on multiple levels and registers, through different lenses and screens, and always personally and intimately.

Before the Normans

Before the Normans
Author: Barbara M. Kreutz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2011-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 081220543X

Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquests. This was a pan-Meditteranean society, where the Roman past and Lombard-Germanic culture met Byzantine and Islamic civilization, creating a rich and unusual mix.