Published with the support of the Suzanne and James Mellor Prize of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 529-610) and indexes.
Contents:
Volume II. Full-Page Illustrations. The Extant Manuscripts from Paradies -- The Sequences of Paradies Bei Soest -- The Shape of the Liturgy in the Gradual D 11 -- The Cult of the Saints at Paradies Bei Soest -- The Art of Inscription in the Gradual D 11 -- Volume II. Appendices -- Full-Page Illustrations.
Summary:
"Written by an international team consisting of two art historians, a historian, and a musicologist, this study explores the intellectual, scribal, artistic and musical culture of the Dominican nuns of Paradies from a variety of perspectives. Taking as its subject a little-known group of fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century liturgical manuscripts from the Dominican convent of Paradies bei Soest (Westphalia), the book also offers a revisionary account of the development of the Dominican order in late medieval Germany. Two antiphonaries, three graduals and additional fragments made both for and by the nuns testify to a self-conscious liturgical culture closely tied to the development of the Dominican order's female branch ...."--Back cover.
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