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Issues in Medieval Liturgy

Convener

Susan Boynton
Department of Music
Columbia University
2960 Broadway, MC 1816
New York, NY 10027
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Mission Statement

The Issues in Medieval Liturgy Seminar devotes itself to the scholarly study of liturgical and devotional life in the Middle Ages. The time period stretches from the late patristic through the renaissance/reformation. The group is interested in any prayer activity of the period which includes both liturgical and devotional. Two sorts of presentations are encouraged: finished papers awaiting publication and works in progress which will benefit from the work in seminar.

2012 Academy Meeting Agenda

FRIDAY JANUARY 6

10.30a Introductions

11.00a STEVEN VANDERPUTTEN – Abbatial Obedience, Liturgical Reform, and the Threat of Monastic Autonomy

MICHAEL CURSCHMANN – Integrating Anselm: Liturgical Chant in a 12th Century Book of Prayers

2.15p PETER JEFFERY – The Roman Liturgical Year and the Early Liturgy of St. Peter’s

3.30p GARY MACY – Women Deacons in the Medieval West

JANET SORRENTINO – Coordinating Customary with Ordinal in the Gilbertine Liturgy 

 

SATURDAY JANUARY 7

9.00a Reports on work-in-progress – MIKE WITCZAK and others

1.30p ANDREW IRVING – ‘Parvulam Sed Competentem Plane’: Books and Their Environment at Montecassino

JULIAN HENDRIX – The Early History of the Office of the Dead

Planning for 2013

 

2011 Academy Meeting Agenda

FRIDAY, JANUARY 7

10:30-12:00 Chant workshop with Richard Crocker

2:00-4:15 Presentations

DONNA ALFANO BUSSELL – The Cluniac Magdalene at Lewes and Pontefract

HANA VLHOVA - Breviaries of Abbess Kunigundis from Prague

JULIAN HENDRIX - A Carolingian Funeral Rite from Reichenau and St. Gall

JIM DONOHUE - Rites for the Dying in the Franciscan Ritual for the Last Sacraments

 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 8

9:00-11:30- Reports on work in progress

RICHARD RUTHERFORD – excavations of baptisteries in Cyprus

JOANNE PIERCE – images of the medieval bishop

MIKE WITCZAK – the manuscript context of the Ordo Missae

DAVID HOLETON – the Office and Utraquism

11:30-12:00 – Seminar assessment form and planning for NAAL 2012

1:30-3:30: Presentations

ED FOLEY – A Tale of Two Sanctuaries: Late Medieval Eucharist and the Analogous

GARY MACY – Bloody Marvelous

MARGOT FASSLER - presentation of film on Coptic liturgy (making of bread)

JAIME LARA - Divine Morsels: Liturgical Texts for Aztecs

 

2010 Academy Meeting Agenda

  1. Main topic of discussion: the ordo missae, commentaries on the Mass, and relationships between them
  2. Michael Driscoll: Carolingian commentaries on the Mass
  3. Mike Witczak: Ordo missae
  4. Maureen Miller: Vesting Prayers and the Ordo Missae
  5. Gary Macy: Devotional themes in twelfth-century commentaries on the Mass
  6. Mary Schaefer: Case Study in Categories of Representation–or the Uses and Abuses of Medieval Latin Commentaries
  7. Julia Schneider: Albertus Magnus, De mysterio missae
  8. David Holeton: Utraquist commentaries on the Mass
  9. Don LaSalle: The Procession with the Veiled Cross on Good Friday: Prelude or First Movement?
  10. Rembert Weakland: The Carolingian Reform and Milanese Liturgy and Chant

2009 Academy Meeting Agenda

  1. Mike Witczak - update on Ordo missae project
  2. J. Pierce - Sigebert of Minden revisited
  3. David Holeton - Brno Mk 85: a Latin Utraquist agenda?
  4. Michael Norton and Amelia Carr - Women's Liturgy in Klosterneuburg
  5. Jane Hardie - Spanish Liturgical manuscripts at the University of Sydney
  6. Grayson Wagstaff - Pre-Tridentine Versions of Matins, The Re-conquest, and Lingering Influences in Spain from French Liturgies
  7. Jane Huber - Keeping Time: New Work based on Historical Models
  8. Neil Roy - Progress report on Archivio San Pietro H58
  9. Nils Holger Petersen - the historiography of medieval liturgy

2008 Academy Meeting Agenda

Papers, 20-25 minutes long, and time for discussion.

Friday, January 4

11:00-11:30 Gary Macy: The Ordination Rites of Deaconesses and Abbesses in the Early Middle Ages

11:30-12:00 Michael Norton: What was “Liturgical  Drama”?

1:30-2:15 David Holeton and Hana Vlhova: A Newly Discovered Office of Saint Jan Hus

2:15-3:00 Julia Schneider on the Liber de sacrificio missae (attributed to Albertus Magnus), and a discussion on the typology of liturgical commentaries.

3:00-3:30 James Hentges: The Crosier sequence repertory

4:00-4:30 Neil Roy: A priest’s manual owned by the Chapter of St Peter-in-the-Vatican: Archivio San Pietro H 58

4:30-5:00 Andrew Irving: The Stratigraphy of the Medieval Liturgical Book: A Sketch of a Method and Two Examples (Montecassino, Archivio dell’Abbazia 424 and 191)

Saturday, January 5

10:45-11:15 Planning for NAAL 2009

11:15-12:00 progress reports: Mike Witczak on the St. Gallen Mass Orders project and  Joanne Pierce on the update of Vogel’s Medieval Liturgy: An Introduction

1:30-2:00 Heather Josselyn: Gilbertine saints 

2:00-2:30 Janet Sorrentino: The Gilbertine Ordinal: fragments for a gradual, antiphonal and lectionary

2:30-3:00 Jim Donohue: Julius Santori’s Ordo Commendationis

Number of participants: 12-15