EAN: 9783402130728

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Written by an international team consisting of two art historians an historian and a musicologist this study explores the intellectual scribal artistic and musical culture of the Dominican nuns of Paradies from a variety of perspectives. Taking as its subject a little-known group of fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century liturgical manuscripts from the Dominican convent of Paradies bei Soest (Westphalia) the book also offers a revisionary account of the development of the Dominican order in late medieval Germany. Two antiphonaries three graduals and additional fragments made both for and by the nuns testify to a self-conscious liturgical culture closely tied to the development of the Dominican order's female branch. One manuscript in particular a gradual written and illuminated at Paradies ca. 1380 (Düsseldorf ULB D 11) contains an unparalleled wealth of inscribed images which make it the most extensively illuminated liturgical manuscript of the entire Middle Ages. The learned inscriptions allow for not only a reconstruction of the nuns' library but also a thoroughgoing re-evaluation of the learning and Latin literacy of mendicant nuns in the late fourteenth century a period that in the accounts of modern scholars as well as medieval reformers has too quickly been discounted as a time of intellectual and institutional decline. In text image and chant the nuns assembled a comprehensive commentary on the liturgy one which serves as a testament to their creativity learning and ambition as well as their devotion.

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