First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval
cantor. Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was
understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West.
The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and
monasteries were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and
the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations
season by season, managing the library and preparing manuscripts
and other sources necessary to sustain the liturgical framework of
time, andpromoting the cults of saints. Crucially, their duties
also often included committing the past to writing, from simple
annals and chronicles to fuller histories, necrologies, and
cartularies, thereby ensuring that towns, churches, families, and
individuals could be commemorated for generations to come. This
volume seeks to address the fundamental question of how the range
of cantors' activities can help us to understand the many different
ways in which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated
across the Middle Ages. Its essays are studies of constructions,
both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and
performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written
records; cantors, as this book makes clear, shaped the communal
experience of the past in the Middle Ages. KATIE ANN-MARIE BUGYIS
is Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the
University of Notre Dame; A.B. KRAEBEL is Assistant Professor of
English at Trinity University; MARGOT FASSLER is Kenough-Hesburgh
Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre
Dame and Robert Tangeman Professor Emerita of Music History at Yale
University. Contributors: Cara Aspesi, Anna de Bakker, Alison I.
Beach, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, Margot E. Fassler, David Ganz, James
Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, Peter Jeffery, Claire TaylorJones, A.B.
Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes,
Susan Rankin, C.C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn, Teresa Webber,
Lauren Whitnah
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