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Bezig met laden... Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies Bei Soest 1300-1425: Inscription and Illumination in the Choir Books of a North German Dominican Conventdoor Jeffrey F. Hamburger
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Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest is a remarkable work. Like its predecessor, Leaves from Paradies: The Cult of John the Evangelist at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest, ed. Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008), which sprang from a 2006 conference, the present work features the charming and complex illuminated liturgical manuscripts from Paradies, often reproduced as large, colorful plates, transcriptions of the micrographic inscriptions that embellish and elaborate the imagery and the musical sequences composed by the nuns, as well as essays that explain them. In place of the 2008 publication's discrete studies, which began their lives as individual conference papers, the chapters of Liturgical Life and Latin Learning were conceptualized from the beginning as components of a single, massive project coauthored by scholars from diverse disciplines who by working together could better reveal the depth of learning and sophisticated planning of the convent's nuns.
Written by an international team consisting of two art historians, an 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. One manuscript in particular, a gradual written and illuminated at Paradies ca. 1380 (Dusseldorf, ULB D 11) contains an unparalleled wealth of inscribed images which make it the most extensively illuminated liturgical manuscript of the entire Middle Ages. The learned inscriptions allow for not only a reconstruction of the nuns' library, but also a thoroughgoing re-evaluation of the learning and Latin literacy of mendicant nuns in the late fourteenth century, a period that in the accounts of modern scholars as well as medieval reformers has too quickly been discounted as a time of intellectual and institutional decline. In text, image and chant, the nuns assembled a comprehensive commentary on the liturgy, one which serves as a testament to their creativity, learning and ambition as well as their devotion. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)745.67The arts Graphic arts and decorative arts Decorative Arts Calligraphy, illumination, heraldic design Illuminated manusciptsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |