Programme

You can find the preliminary programme here. Please note that changes may occur. Further details, including room locations and arrival instructions, will be provided closer to the colloquium.

14:00 - 16:15 Meet the Fragmenta Membranea collection

Venue: the National Library of Finland

The National Library of Finland houses a rich collection of 9,300 parchment leaves originating from c. 1,500 medieval manuscripts. Most of the leaves, 64%, are fragments of liturgical manuscripts. These fragments reflect the liturgical life of local parish churches from the 12th-century missionary period to the Reformation in the 16th century.

The event offers you the opportunity to discover the Fragmenta Membranea collection: its history, contents and the ongoing research surrounding it. You will also encounter some of the manuscripts themselves. Since nearly half of the collection includes musical notation, we will conclude the event by singing some of the melodies together. No prior musical experience is required.

17:00 - 17:45 Concert: Sounding Manuscripts

Venue: Kallio Church, Papinkatu 2

Vocal ensemble Vox Silentii, specialised in singing medieval plainchant, performs a selection of chants once sung in the medieval Diocese of Turku. 

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Following the concert, a mass with medieval melodies will be celebrated in the church at 18:00. Introduced as part of the weekday services in the 2000s, the mass integrates medieval plainchant into the contemporary life of the congregation.

 

09:15 - 09:30 Welcome

09:30 - 10:30 Keynote 

Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge); Scribal Activity and Competence in the Eleventh Century: a Case Study

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 12:30  Session 1

Room 1 - Digital Methods

11:00-11:30 Michael Braunger; Fragments of Liturgical Books and Their Digital Analysis

11:30-12:00 Anna de Bakker (McGill University & Dalhousie University); Communicating the Contents: Linked Data and Liturgical Books

12:00-12:30 Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University); Cantus: The Challenges of Managing a Legacy Database for Medieval Chant

Room 2 - Questions of Genre

11:00-11:30 Erik Niblaeus (University of Cambridge); Liturgical Books and Liturgical Commentary in the Twelfth Century

11:30-12:00 Tyler Sampson (Yale Institute of Sacred Music); Liturgical Handbooks: A Liturgical Book?

12:00-12:30 Laine Tabora; Prayer Books of Nuns: Features and Content of a Distinct Type of Liturgical Book

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Session 2

Room 1 - Palaeography of Musical Notation

13:30-14:00 Irina Chachulska (Polish Academy of Sciences); The Earliest Staff Notation Systems in Polish Sources (up to ca. 1300)

14:00-14:30 Cassandra Fenton (University of Bristol); Notating the English Pontificals: Preliminary Findings in the 10th-Century Sources

14:30-15:00 Shin Nishimagi (Tokyo University of the Arts); Notated Fragments of the Medieval Liturgical Manuscript in Tokyo : Repertoire, Notation and Modality

Room 2 - Recycling of Liturgical Books

13:30-14:00 Tom Lorenz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology); The Afterlife of the Liturgical Book: Reuse and Recycling of Liturgical Books in Post-Reformation Iceland

14:00-14:30 Sanna Raninen (National Library of Finland); Medieval Liturgical Manuscripts in Post-Reformation Swedish and Finnish Book Inventories

14:30-15:00 Alexander Vella Gregory; Recycled Manuscripts & an Apostolic Visit

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee

15:30 - 17:00 Session 3

Room 1 - Evolving Traditions

15:30-16:00 Arthur Westwell (Universität Regensburg); Latin Europe’s First Liturgical Bestseller: Manuscripts and Fragments of the Gelasian Sacramentary of the Eighth Century

16:00-16:30 Alessandra Ignesti; Innovation & Transformation in Beneventan Manuscripts for the Office

16:30-17:00 Eugenia Russo (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale); South Italian Witnesses of the Italian Homiliary: Preservation and Innovation

Room 2 - Adaptation and Audience

15:30-16:00 Eleanor Giraud (University of Limerick); Making Dominican Chant: Choices and Changes

16:00-16:30 Dinca Adinel-Ciprian (Babes-Bolyai University); Adaptation and Change in the Liturgical Books of the Transylvanian Saxons

16:30-17:00 Armine Melkonyan (University of Florence/Matenadaran); “For the enjoyment of…”: Patrons of Medieval Armenian Liturgical Manuscripts

18:30 Conference Dinner

09:15 - 10:15 Keynote 

Laura Albiero (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis); A Labor of Faith: The Making of Liturgical Books in the Middle Ages 

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee

10:45 - 12:15 Session 4

Room 1 - Liturgy in Medieval Sweden

10:45-11:15 Biörn Tjällén (Mid Sweden University); A Crown of Thorns? Liturgical Fragments and the Development of Swedish Kingship

11:15-11:45 Karin Lagergren (Linnaeus University & Alamire Foundation); Liturgy in Växjö and Strängnäs Dioceses – Two Different Source Situations

11:45-12:15 Steffen Hope (University of Bergen); Calendar Fragments as Sources to Changing Liturgical Practice

Room 2 - Liturgical Books, Music and Memory

10:45-11:15 Vittoria Magnoler (University of Genoa); Using the Antiphonary as a Place of Memory. A Case-study from Trecento Italy

11:15-11:45 Rui Pedro Neves (Center for the History of Society and Culture, Portugal); Embodying Memory through Liturgy: The Medieval Obituary of Viseu Cathedral

11:45-12:15 Marie Winkelmüller-Urechia (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen); Liturgy & Chants as Markers of Cultural Memory

12:15 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 13:45 Keynote 

Speaker(s) and title to be confirmed

14:00 - 15:30 Session 5

Room 1 - Form and Content

14:00-14:30 Lidia Buono (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale); Lenten Catechesis in the Otto-beuren Homiliary

14:30-15:00 To be confirmed

15:00-15:30 Melanie Shaffer (University of Bristol); Celebrating ‘Common’ Saints in Early Medieval Iberia from Books to Practice

Room 2 - Archives and Methods

14:00-14:30 Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University); Why We Need to Visit Archives and Libraries in the Age of Digital Musicology

14:30-15:00 Andrew Irving (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen); Affordance Theory & the Liturgical Book: Elements of a Media Archaeology

15:00-15:30 Elena Rizzato (MIC- Archivio di Stato di Vercelli); Discover the Cover. Medieval Liturgical Texts and Music from Vercelli

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:30 Session 6

Room 1 - Books and Churches

16:00-16:30 Inês Trindade (Maynooth University); Twelfth-century Liturgical Fragments at Worcester Cathedral

16:30-17:00 Rhiannon Warren (University of Cambridge); Liturgical Books at Medieval Svalbarðskirkia

17:00-17:30 Eduardo Carrero (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona); The Architectural Dimension of Toledo Cathedral’s Liturgical Books

Room 2 - Inside Liturgical Traditions

16:00-16:30 Matthew Jarvis (University of Oxford); How to Train Your Dominican: From Novice to Cantor

16:30-17:00 Giorgio Zoia (Kalicantus ensemble); Treviso, 1524-1944: Preserving Traditions Through Troubled Times

17:00-17:30 Séan Vrieland & (?) (University of Copenhagen); Experiencing Liturgy in the Vernacular: The Low German translation of Cantus Sororum