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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of them still unpublished, reveal that many of the larger foundations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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