onsdag 26. september 2018

The sausage-maker in Trogir

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In the Croatian city of Trogir there is a medieval cathedral with a stupendous and beautifully crafted stone arch. I will tell you more a...
mandag 24. september 2018

A requiem by Cristóbal de Morales

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As the autumn takes hold on Denmark and various signs of ending and transition appear in my everyday life, it somehow feels fitting to sha...
lørdag 15. september 2018

The World in His Hands - a medieval representation of the earth in Early Modern Denmark

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He's got the whole world in his hands - Traditional One of the most pernicious misunderstandings about the Middle Ages is the erron...
søndag 9. september 2018

A chant for the birth of the Virgin Mary

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Yesterday, September 08, was the feast of the birth of the Virgin Mary, one of the oldest of the several Marian feasts that were implement...
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fredag 31. august 2018

Felix, and Adauctus the added saint

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Yesterday, August 30, was the feast of SS Felix and Adauctus, who were believed to have suffered during Diocletian's persecution of Chr...
onsdag 29. august 2018

A requiem by Duarte Lobo

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Since so much of my work consists of researching medieval liturgy, much of the music to which I listen in the course of a workday is also ...
søndag 26. august 2018

Working with liturgical manuscripts, part 13 - the intertextuality of an antiphon

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I have recently returned to work on manuscript fragments at Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, and it is very gratifying to sit down with the...