Music, liturgy, and the veneration of saints of the medieval Irish church in a European context / edited by Ann Buckley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buckley, Ann (Ann I.), editor.

Series:

Ritus et artes ; Volume 8.

Ritus et artes ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Celtic rite.

Catholic Church.

Church music--Ireland.

Church music.

British Isles--Church history.

British Isles.

Great Britain.

Europe--British Isles.

Europe.

Ireland.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 358 pages, 6 numbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]

Summary:

This book opens up discussion on the liturgical music of medieval Ireland by approaching it from a multidisciplinary, European perspective. In so doing, it challenges received notions of an idiosyncratic 'Celtic Rite', and of the prevailing view that no manuscripts with music notation have survived from the medieval Irish Church. This is due largely to a preoccupation by earlier scholars with pre-Norman Gaelic culture, to the neglect of wider networks of engagement between Ireland, Britain, and continental Europe. In adopting a more inclusive approach, a different view emerges which demonstrates the diversity and international connectedness of Irish ecclesiastical culture throughout the long Middle Ages, in both musico-liturgical and other respects. The contributors represent a variety of specialisms, including musicology, liturgiology, palaeography, hagiology, theology, church history, Celtic studies, French studies, and Latin. From this rich range of perspectives they investigate the evidence for Irish musical and liturgical practices from the earliest surviving sources with chant texts to later manuscripts with music notation, as well as exploring the far-reaching cultural impact of the Irish church in medieval Europe through case studies of liturgical offices in honour of Irish saints, and of saints traditionally associated with Ireland in different parts of Europe.

Contents:

Introduction / Ann Buckley

I. Chant in the early Irish church. 1. A study of early Irish chant / Michel Huglo

II. Issues of time and place. 2. Proper offices for saints and the Historia: their history and historiography, and the case of the Historia for St. Livinus / Barbara Haggh-Huglo

3. Locality and distance in cults of saints in medieval Norway / Nils Holger Petersen

III. Offices of the saints. Continental sources. 4. Omnes sancti chori Hiberniae sanctorum orate pro nobis : manuscript evidence for the cult of Irish saints in medieval Europe / Jean-Michel Picard

5. Songs for the Peregrini : proper chants for Irish saints in continental manuscripts / Sara G. Casey

6. The historia of St Fintan of Rheinau / Bernhard Hangartner

7. Letetur Hybernia, jubilans Antverpia : the chant and cult of St Dympna of Gheel / Pieter Mannaerts

Insular sources: Ireland. 8. From hymn to Historia : liturgical veneration of local saints in the medieval Irish church / Ann Buckley

9. The medieval office for St Patrick / Senan Furlong

10. A divine office celebration for the feast of St Canice at Kilkenny cathedral / Patrick Brannon

Insular Sources: Scotland and Wales. 11. Possible Irish influences in the office for St Kentigern, patron Saint of Glasgow / Betty I. Knott

12. Why St Andrew? why not St Columba as patron saint of Scotland? / Greta-Mary Hair

13. Reconstructing first vespers for the feast of Saint Brendan, Abbot of Clonfert, from the common office of a confessor abbot, according to the Sarum rite / Ciaran O'driscoll

g14. Shaping an 'indigenous' liturgy : the case for medieval Wales / Sally Harper

IV. Liturgy: theory and practice. 15. The significance of the Liturgia horarium in the Nauigatio sancti Brendani in its modelling of a sacramental christian life / Patricia M. Rumsey

16. The use of the eucharistic chrismal in pre-Norman Ireland / Neil Xavier O'donoghue

17. Celtic mists : the search for a celtic rite / Liam Tracey.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

2-503-54020-1

9782503540207 (electronic book)