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Royal Holloway-British Library Lectures in Musicology
MUSIC IN THE MAKING OF EUROPE 1000-1300
a series of five public lectures from December 2004 to May 2005, given by
CHRISTOPHER PAGE
sponsored by the Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London
supported by the British Library
Lecture 5, Tuesday 3 May, from 6 pm to 7 pm at the British Library
Conference Centre:
HOSPITALS
The common culture of Latin Europe spread eastwards in waves of colonisation
and conquest, and the tide was often marked by the foundation of charitable
institutions for the care of travellers, orphans, widows and the sick. This
is what the term 'hospital' implies in a medieval context. In many of the
larger foundations, the chant of a sung liturgical service in the hospital
chapel was one of the principal forms of medicine and comfort offered to
those weary or otherwise distressed. The musical life of these institutions
in the period 1000-1300, like their potent association with roadways, for
example, and with bridges, has never been fully investigated. And yet,
contemporary inventories, the vast majority of them still unpublished,
reveal that many of the larger foundations possessed substantial holdings of
noted antiphoners and other liturgical books. Usually dedicated to
'international saints' like Mary Magdalene or Saint Nicholas, these
hospitals and their musical life provide us with a potent emblem of a Europe
in the making between 1000 and 1300.
Admission is free, without ticket.
For further details and directions to the venue please visit
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/Research/Distinguishedlectures.html.
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