Venue: the National Library of Finland, Auditorium, Yliopistonkatu 1 (see the arrival instructions here)
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.
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.
Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge); Scribal Activity and Competence in the Eleventh Century: a Case Study
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
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
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
13:30-14:00 Tom Lorenz (University of Bergen); 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 (Triagon Academy); Recycled Manuscripts & an Apostolic Visit
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
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
Laura Albiero (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis); A Labor of Faith: The Making of Liturgical Books in the Middle Ages
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
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
Speaker(s) and title to be confirmed
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
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
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
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