IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 410: Interpreting Medieval Liturgy: Work in Progess - A Round Table Discussion
Monday 11 July 2011, 19.30-20.30
| Sponsor: | Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Kent |
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| Organiser: | Helen Gittos, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Kent |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah M. Hamilton, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter |
| Abstract | Recently an AHRC-sponsored network of international scholars has been investigating problems associated with interpreting rites for occasional services. Breaking down the current disciplinary barriers in liturgical studies by asking the same questions from scholars from musicological, literary, historical, architectural history, and theological backgrounds, it culminated in a re-enactment of a late medieval Sarum rite for the reconciliation of penitents. This round table discussion offers a chance to see the audio-visual recording of this event, and open the network's discussions to the wider scholarly community, exploring questions about how and why texts were produced, their relationship to performance, and the influence of reform on developments in liturgical rites. Participants include William T. Flynn (University of Leeds), Helen Gittos (University of Kent), Sarah Hamilton (University of Exeter), John Harper (Bangor University), Yitzhak Hen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva), Rob Meens (Universiteit Utrecht), Henry Parkes (University of Cambridge), and Matthew Salisbury (University of Oxford). |