Chant, Art, and Archives: How Late-Medieval Documents Reveal Liturgy
Chant, Art, and Archives: How Late-Medieval Documents Reveal Liturgy

Summary/Abstract: From the thirteenth century until the French Revolution in northern Europe, foundations, which were gifts to churches of perpetual incomes, established or embellished liturgical feast days with music and even art (sculpture, paintings). Using the history of the feast of the Recollectio festorum beate Marie Virginis that was founded in Cambrai and other foundations in Ghent as examples, this study argues that the documentation for such foundations, still unexplored, can explain the variety in the liturgy and assist with the dating of manuscripts and associated art and music. Useful types of documents are surveyed, and future research of this kind is proposed, with French inventories of archives that provide details of documents recording foundations as one starting point.

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