EAN: 9783402130728

LITURGICAL LIFE AND LATIN LEARNING AT PARADIES ...

Written by an international team consisting of two art historians  an 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 fourteenth- and 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. One manuscript in particular  a gradual written and illuminated at Paradies ca.
1380 (Düsseldorf  ULB D 11) contains an unparalleled wealth of inscribed images which make it
the most extensively illuminated liturgical manuscript of the entire Middle Ages. The learned
inscriptions allow for not only a reconstruction of the nuns' library  but also a thoroughgoing
re-evaluation of the learning and Latin literacy of mendicant nuns in the late fourteenth
century  a period that in the accounts of modern scholars as well as medieval reformers has too
quickly been discounted as a time of intellectual and institutional decline. In text  image and
chant  the nuns assembled a comprehensive commentary on the liturgy  one which serves as a
testament to their creativity  learning and ambition as well as their devotion.

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