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.
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 To be confirmed
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 To be confirmed
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