Medieval Cantors and their Craft: Music, Liturgy and the Shaping of History, 800–1500, ed. Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, A.B. Kraebel and Margot E. Fassler
Benjamin Pohl
The edited volume under review here provides the first book-length publication dedicated to monastic cantors and their various activities (i.e., ‘craft’) during Middle Ages. Following a brief introduction by editors, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, A.B. Kraebel Margot E. Fassler, book contains nineteen chapters neatly arranged into four sections (‘The Carolingian Period’, pp. 7–88; ‘The Eleventh Century’, 89–170; ‘England in Twelfth 171–276; ‘On Continent: Five Case Studies’, 277–356) rounded off an Index of Manuscripts (pp. 357–59) General 361–370). From conceptual point view, three editors have done exemplary job bringing together international group scholars from wide variety disciplinary backgrounds at different stages respective careers, ranging medieval historians, literary palaeographers theologians musicologists, doctoral candidates emeritus professors. They also taken great care ensuring that book’s individual do not stand isolation, but relate one another regularly (and often explicitly), thereby feeding important overarching discussions debates.
The English Historical Review