Joanne Pierce
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, MA 01610
[email protected]
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.
Friday, January 3
8:30 Greetings, Introductions, Welcome
9:15 Michael Witczak (Catholic University of America), Comparing Medieval Apologies in the 1962 Roman Missal with the Revised/Reused Private Prayers of the Priest in the Current Roman Missal: The Rites of Communion
2:15 Christopher Hodkinson (Wyoming Catholic College), Constructing a Practical Edition of the Ferial Compline According to the Use of Sarum
3:00 Katherine Steiner (Conrad Grebel University College), Local Music and the Early Lady Mass in Insular Sources
4:30 Barbara Haggh-Huglo (University of Maryland), Liturgical Items for the Dead Requested in Foundations in Ghent
5:15 Elaine Stratton Hild (Universität Würzburg), Chants from the Medieval Rites for the Dying
Saturday, January 4
8:30 Tyler Sampson (Catholic University of America), The Didactic Collections of Ordines romani and the Practice of Liturgy
9:15 Michael Driscoll (University of Notre Dame), The Sacramentalization of Private Confession
11-12:30
Special Practicum and Round Table Discussion: Emotional Expression in the Medieval Liturgy
(a special combined event of the Medieval Issues and Liturgical Music seminars)
11:00 (Practicum) Learning to Sing a Medieval Chant: Emotional Expression in Performance (Then and Now)? Singing Coordinator, Anthony Ruff, O.S.B., St. Johns University. Learning to sing a Medieval chant in a variety of ways to better understand the degree to which the text, the music, and the liturgical context either inherently express or beg for the performative expression of emotion. No prior experience expected. Onlookers and singers equally welcome.
11:45 (Round Table) Chant and Emotional Expression: Concrete Examples for Discussion. Panelists: Anthony Ruff, Christopher Hodkinson, Rebecca Maloy, Daniel DiCenso (moderator)
2:00 Rebecca Maloy (University of Colorado Boulder), Doctrine, Devotion, and Cultural Expression in the Cults of Medieval Iberian Saints: A Report and Preliminary Case Study
2:45 Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame), Tracing the Templar Origins of a Twelfth-Century Psalter
3:30 Planning for 2021
2018 Seminar Agenda
Friday, January 5
10:30 AM – 12 Noon.
Barbara Haggh-Huglo (University of Maryland; Fellow, Yale Institute of Sacred Music). "Cluny and Ghent”: My paper to be circulated will describe the results of a close comparison of graduals and antiphoners from Cluny or Cluniac houses and the abbeys of Ghent. The question I seek to answer is to what extent the Cluniac liturgy and its chant was received in Ghent. An important source of Cluniac music includes unusual notation for microtones. My close comparison of the late fifteenth-century gradual of the Abbey of St Bavo suggests that many of these were treated in the same way in Ghent, becoming short vocal ornaments. The liturgical similarities - the Office of the Dead and Post-Pentecostal alleluias - raise interesting questions about the development of the liturgy not only in Ghent, but in other northwestern churches and abbeys, including Laon and Cambrai.
1:30 – 3:00 PM Discussion: a discussion of dealing with race/otherness in the medieval period; here has also been a great deal of discussion about race/otherness in medieval studies and some high-profile disagreements. A discussion to see if we would like to offer any response as a group.
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Michael Witczak (Catholic University). “Comparing Missals”: presentation on the project that I began last year, comparing the last version of the medieval/1570 Roman Missale (i.e., the 1962 Missal) with the current ordo, looking at the private prayers of the priest as a lens to unpack an evolving theology of priesthood.
Saturday, January 6
9:00 AM – 12 Noon
Joanne Pierce (College of the Holy Cross). Update on projects: historical perspectives on reconciliation (beyond the usual histories of the rites of penance; and reflections on the history of the private Mass.
Discussion: a conversation on evolving trends in the study of the medieval liturgy: the emergence of social history, and the great work done by musicologists, and the relative paucity of work being done by those from a more theologically based starting point.
1:30 – 3:00 PM
Other updates from members of seminar and planning for Denver 2019.