The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification

226 Pages·2004·21.4 MB·English

by  Nils Holger Petersen

The Appearances of M edieval
Rituals
DISPUTATIO
EDITORIAL BOARD
Georgiana Donavin (Westminster College)
Cary J. Nederman (Texas A&M University)
Richard Utz (University of Northern Iowa)
VOLUME 3
Th e A ppearances of M edieval
R ituals
The Play of Construction and Modification
edited by
Nils Holger Petersen, Mette Birkedal Braun,
Jeremy Llewellyn, and Eyolf 0strem
BREPOLS
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The appearances of medieval rituals : the play of construction and
modification. - (Disputatio ; 3)
1 .Catholic Church - Europe - Liturgy - History - To 1500 - Congresses
2.Ritual - Europe - History - To 1500 - Congresses 3.Ritual in art -
Congresses 4.Europe - Church history - 600-1500 - Congresses
I.Petersen, Nils Holger
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations ix
Illustrations xi
Introduction 1
NILS HOLGER PETERSEN, METTE BIRKEDAL BRUUN, JEREMY
LLEWELLYN, AND EYOLF 0STREM
Section I: Medieval Liturgy and ‘the Arts’
Carolingian Music, Ritual, and Theology 13
NILS HOLGER PETERSEN
Roman Theatre and Roman Rite: Twelfth-Century Transformations
in Allegory, Ritual, and the Idea of Theatre 33
DONNALEE DOX
Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermons for the Liturgical Year 49
WIMVERBAAL
Procession and Contemplation in Bernard of Clairvaux’s First
Sermon for Palm Sunday 67
METTE BIRKEDAL BRUUN
Section II: Ritual and Music
Ritual and Repetition: The Ambiguities of Refrains 83
ANDREAS HAUG
VI Contents
A Paulinus of Aquileia versus in Eleventh-century Italy 97
JEREMY LLEWELLYN
Palestrina and Aristotle: Form in Renaissance Music 123
EYOLF 0STREM
Section III: Ritual and Visual Representation
Living Rocks and locus amoenus: Architectural
Representations of Paradise in Early Christianity 149
JENS FLEISCHER
Cultic Vision—Seeing as Ritual: Visual and Liturgical
Experience in the Early Christian and Medieval Church 173
HANS HENRIK LOHFERT J0RGENSEN
Alfonso’s Miraculous Book: Patronage, Politics, and
Performance in the Cantigas de Santa Maria 199
KIRSTIN KENNEDY
Contributors 213
Index 215
Acknowledgements
The majority of articles in the present volume are reworked versions of papers
presented at the first international conference of the Centre for the Study of the
Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals at the University of Copenhagen in December
2002. As a result of preparatory work and fruitful discussions at the conference
itself, it was decided to publish a collection of essays by scholars from the Centre
and from other universities and institutions, reflecting the medieval part of the
research project at the Copenhagen Centre.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Danish National Research
Foundation in establishing the Centre in collaboration with the Faculty of Theology
at the University of Copenhagen. The support which the Centre received has also
made the conference and the scholarly collaborations possible, without which this
book could never have been published.
It has been a privilege to have had such understanding and efficient editorial support
from the editors of the disputatio series at Brepols Publishers, and at all levels of the
process. It has also been a pleasure to collaborate with the authors and we are
grateful for their cooperative zeal and willingness to consider their own fields of
research within the overall framework of the Centre project.
The process towards this volume has also been extremely fruitful for the Centre
project in general, not least in connection with the formulation of methodological
presuppositions, and we are grateful for the opportunity to make this available to a
larger public.
Abbreviations
AH Analecta Hymnica medii aevi, ed. by Guido Maria Dreves (Leipzig:
Fues’s Verlag (R. Reisland), 1886-1922; repr. New York and
London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1961-78)
CCCM Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaeualis (Tumhout: Brepols,
1966-)
CCSL Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina (Tumhout: Brepols, 1953- )
MGH Poetae Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, ed.
by Emst Diimmler and others, 4 vols (Berlin: Weidmann, 1881—
1923).
MMMA Monumenta monodica medii aevi (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1956- ).
PG Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca, ed. by Jacques-Paul
Migne, 161 vols (Paris: Gamier, 1857-66)
PL Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina, ed. by Jacques-Paul
Migne, 221 vols (Paris: Gamier, 1844-64)
SBO Sancti Bemardi Opera, ed. by J. Leclercq, H.-M. Rochais, and C. H.
Talbot, 8 vols (Rome: Editiones Cistercienses, 1957-77)
Illustrations
Carolingian Music, Ritual, and Theology
NILS HOLGER PETERSEN
Fig. 1: Sankt Gallen Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 484, p. 13, containing the
beginning of the Christmas trope Hodie cantandus est (last three lines
of the page). 30
Fig. 2: Sankt Gallen Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 484, p. 14, the
conclusion of the Christmas trope Hodie cantandus est. 31
Ritual and Repetition: The Ambiguities of Refrains
ANDREAS HAUG
Example 1: Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek, Lit. 19,
fol. 67 (top) and Benevento, Biblioteca Capitolare, VI38, fol 35. 85
Example 2: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ft. 20050, fol. 82v. 93
Example 3: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 3719, fol. 38v. 95
A Paulinus of Aquileia versus in Eleventh-century Italy
Jeremy Llewellyn
Example 1: Gloria laudis res one t, Vro98 (staffless neumes, eleventh
century) and Pia65 (twelfth century). 106
Example 2: Ut queant laxis. 109
Example 3: Quis infelici, Vat3797, and Laus trinitati, Vrol02 (eleventh
century). 113
Example 4: Quis infelici and Laus trinitati as in previous example,with
neumatic notation for Ad caeli clara, from Be455 (ninth century, end). 115
Illustrations
Example 5: Gloriam Deo, Pal 154 (tenth century; top) and
RoA123 (c. 1036; bottom). 117
Palestrina and Aristotle
EYOLF 0STREM
Example 1. Palestrina: ‘Osculetur me’, mm. 1-20. 126
Example 2. Palestrina: ‘Dies sanctificatus’, beginning. 128
Example 3. Standard distribution of clausulae in the
syncopated cadence. 129
Example 4. ‘ Osculetur me ’, mm. 20-31. 130
Example 5. ‘Osculetur me’, mm. 31-36. 131
Example 6. ‘Osculetur me’, mm. 36—45. 132
Example 7. ‘Osculetur me’, mm. 45-end. 133
Living Rocks and locus amoenus'. Architectural Representations of
Paradise in Early Christianity
JENS FLEISCHER
Fig. 1. Qal’at Si’man. Octagon, looking north-west, as in 2000. Left: a
capital of the ‘wind-blown acanthus’ type. Photo: Tobias Fleischer. 166
Fig. 2. Baqirha, eastern church. Capital of the ‘wind-blown acanthus’
type. Photo: Jens Fleischer. 167
Fig. 3. Damascus, courtyard of Umayyad
mosque. Reused capital with slightly moved acanthus leaves. Photo:
Jens Fleischer. 168
Fig. 4. Damascus, courtyard of Umayyad mosque, arcaded area.
Fragment of a landscape with a tree in mosaic. Photo: Jens Fleischer. 169
Fig. 5. Istanbul, The Archaeological Museum. Trunk of a palm tree,
drawing: Gustave Mendel, Catalogue des sculptures (Constantinople:
Musées Impériaux Ottomans, 1914), cat. no. 1247. 170
Fig. 6. Venice, Piazza S. Marco, Pilastri Acritani. Photo: Jens Fleischer. 171