Venue: the National Library of Finland, Auditorium, Yliopistonkatu 1 (
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
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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.
The registration desk is located in the hall of the University of Helsinki’s Main Building. Please enter the building at the address Fabianinkatu 33.
Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge); Scribal Activity and Competence in the Eleventh Century: a Case Study
Coffee is served in the hall in front of the Studium 1 conference room.
11:00-11:30 Michael Braunger; Fragments of Liturgical Books and Their Digital Analysis
11:30-12:00 Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University); Cantus: The Challenges of Managing a Legacy Database for Medieval Chant
12:00-12:30 Anna de Bakker (McGill University & Dalhousie University); Communicating the Contents: Linked Data and Liturgical Books
11:00-11:30 Tyler Sampson (Yale Institute of Sacred Music); Liturgical Handbooks: A Liturgical Book?
11:30-12:00 Eduardo Carrero (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona); The Architectural Dimension of Toledo Cathedral’s Liturgical Books
12:00-12:30 Melanie Shaffer (University of Bristol); Celebrating ‘Common’ Saints in Early Medieval Iberia from Books to Practice
Lunch is served in the hall in front of the Studium 1 conference room.
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 Alexander Vella Gregory (Triagon Academy); Recycled Manuscripts & an Apostolic Visit
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 cancelled
Coffee is served in the hall in front of the Studium 1 conference room.
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 Lidia Buono (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale); Lenten Catechesis in the Otto-beuren Homiliary
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 Adinel C. Dincă (Babes-Bolyai University); Adaptation and Change in the Liturgical Books of the Transylvanian Saxons
16:00-16:30 Séan Vrieland (University of Copenhagen); Experiencing Liturgy in the Vernacular: The Low German translation of Cantus Sororum
16:30-17:00 Armine Melkonyan (University of Florence/Matenadaran); “For the enjoyment of…”: Patrons of Medieval Armenian Liturgical Manuscripts
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Laura Albiero (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis); A Labor of Faith: The Making of Liturgical Books in the Middle Ages
11:00-11:30 Biörn Tjällén (Mid Sweden University); A Crown of Thorns? Liturgical Fragments and the Development of Swedish Kingship
11:30-12:00 Karin Lagergren (Linnaeus University & Alamire Foundation); Liturgy in Växjö and Strängnäs Dioceses – Two Different Source Situations
12:00-12:30 Rhiannon Warren (University of Cambridge); Liturgical Books at Medieval Svalbarðskirkia
11:00-11:30 Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University); Why We Need to Visit Archives and Libraries in the Age of Digital Musicology
11:30-12:00 Inês Trindade (Maynooth University); Twelfth-century Liturgical Fragments at Worcester Cathedral
12:00-12:30 Elena Rizzato (MIC- Archivio di Stato di Vercelli); Discover the Cover. Medieval Liturgical Texts and Music from Vercelli
13:30-14:00 Eleanor Giraud (University of Limerick); Making Dominican Chant: Choices and Changes
14:00-14:30 Matthew Jarvis (University of Oxford); How to Train Your Dominican: From Novice to Cantor
14:30-15:00 Laine Tabora; Prayer Books of Nuns: Features and Content of a Distinct Type of Liturgical Book
13:30-14:00 Vittoria Magnoler (University of Genoa); Using the Antiphonary as a Place of Memory. A Case-study from Trecento Italy
14:00-14:30 Rui Pedro Neves (Center for the History of Society and Culture, Portugal); Embodying Memory through Liturgy: The Medieval Obituary of Viseu Cathedral
14:30-15:00 Alessandra Ignesti; Innovation & Transformation in Beneventan Manuscripts for the Office
Jaakko Tahkokallio (University of Helsinki); The Production of Liturgical Books in Medieval Finland