Liturgical life and latin learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425
Subtitle: inscription and illumination in the choir books of a North German dominican convent
By: Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, Susan Marti, and Margot E. Fassler
Contributors: National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)
Publisher: Aschendorff Verlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 781
ISBN-13: 9783402130728
Subjects: Liturgy; Manuscripts; Graduals (Liturgical books); Sequences (Liturgy); Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Themes, motives; Scriptoria; Liturgics; Catholic Church; Dominikanerinnenkloster Paradiese (Soest, Germany)
Other titles: Inscription and illumination in the choir books of a North German dominican convent
Description: Written by an international team consisting of two art historians, a 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 fourteenthand 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.
Notes: Published with the support of the Suzanne and James Mellor Prize of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Contains bibliographical references (pages 529-610, Volume II) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Volume I.; title: The Foundation and Growth of the Monastery --; title: The Extant Manuscripts from Paradies --; title: The Sequences of Paradies Bei Soest --; title: The Shape of the Liturgy in the Gradual D 11 --; title: The Cult of the Saints at Paradies Bei Soest --; title: The Art of Inscription in the Gradual D 11 -- -- Volume II.; title: Appendices --; title: Full-Page Illustrations.