Contributions

  • National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.) - Contributor

Publication

2016 - Aschendorff Verlag, Münster, Germany

Language

English

Word Count

195,250 words, Guess

Page Count

781 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC745.67
  • LCCND2889-3416
  • LCCND2894.G4 L58 2016

Alternate Titles

  • Inscription and illumination in the choir books of a North German dominican convent

Description

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 fourteenthand 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.

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