The Politics of Sound and Song: Lectors and Cantors in Early Medieval Iberia
Molly Lester
In early medieval Iberia, Suevic and Visigothic conversions to Nicene Christianity in the 560s 580s generated ongoing episcopal royal attention cathedral liturgies clerics who performed them. This article turns this Iberian context illuminate how lectors cantors their aural duties became increasingly central production of Christian orthodoxy. It is argued that 600s anxieties over correct liturgical sound eventually a focal point longstanding efforts clericalise minor officers Church.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History