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Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and history was remembered... more Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West. The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and monasteries, along with other officials who often shared their duties, were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations season by season, managing the library and preparing manuscripts and other sources necessary to sustain the liturgical framework of time, and promoting the cults of saints. Crucially, their duties also often included committing the past to writing, from simple annals and chronicles to more fulsome histories, necrologies, and cartularies, thereby ensuring that towns, churches, families, and individuals could be commemorated for generations to come.

This interdisciplinary book is the first of its kind to be dedicated wholly to exploring these cantors and their craft. As the use of this word––“craft”––in our titles suggests, the essays in this volume are studies of constructions, both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written records. These essays respond to a fundamental question: How can the range of cantors’ activities help us understand the many different ways in which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated across this long period? Our contributors present a variety of different approaches to answering this question, and in the process their essays recover some of the multifaceted work of medieval history-making. In most cases, their answers involve recourse to the liturgy, a mode of history-production in which all members of the community––lay and religious, men and women––had roles to play. Cantors, as this volume makes clear, shaped the communal experience of the past in the Middle Ages.

Contributors include: Cara Aspesi, Alison I. Beach, Katie Bugyis, Anna de Bakker, Margot Fassler, David Ganz, James Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, Peter Jeffery, CJ Jones, Andrew Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes, Susan Rankin, C. C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonneysn, Tessa Webber, and Lauren Whitnah.

My dissertation, which I am in the process of revising, offers the first sustained reading of Eng... more My dissertation, which I am in the process of revising, offers the first sustained reading of English biblical criticism at the end of the Middle Ages; it proposes, against earlier generalizations about ‘medieval hermeneutics’, the competing priorities of totalizing scholastic theories and hermeneutic traditions proper to individual biblical books; it recovers the importance of the commentarial form for the earliest English translations of the Bible, arguing that, in this period, biblical translation is best considered an aspect of the scholastic enterprise of interpretation; and it demonstrates the heretofore unappreciated popularity of this literary form up to, and beyond, the English Reformation.

From the publisher: This volume offers a first edition of three homiletic works by the twelfth-c... more From the publisher:

This volume offers a first edition of three homiletic works by the twelfth-century canon regular William of Newburgh: a homily on Luke 11.27 that explores in two successive sections the literal and typological exegesis of the passage, respectively; a sermon on the Trinity, structured as an extended exegesis of the Gloria Patri and the Benedicamus, and owing much to Augustinian notions of the Trinitarian structure of the human soul as an image of God; and a sermon on the martyrdom of St Alban which extrapolates from relatively brief references to the details of the narrative in order to explore the nature of martyrdom and the union of the martyr’s soul with Christ. Together they constitute a significant witness to the development of meditative theology as a vehicle of spirituality in England in the generations after Anselm. In keeping with the principles of the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series, the texts are edited from a single MS witness, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C. 31 in the case of the first two works and that of London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 73 in the case of the third, with judicious appeal to the other two MSS for variant readings only where the reading of the base MS is clearly defective. The volume concludes with an index of biblical citations.

Papers by Andrew Kraebel

in Medieval Cantors and their Craft (see "books").

The Library, 7th ser., 16 (2015): 458-66. BL MS Arundel 158, a copy of Richard Rolle’s English P... more The Library, 7th ser., 16 (2015): 458-66.

BL MS Arundel 158, a copy of Richard Rolle’s English Psalter, contains a series of annotations in the hand of Stephan Batman, providing one further example to illustrate Batman’s interest in Middle English biblical literature, and also identifying the precise date of Batman’s birth.

Abstract. –– Though they are largely unedited and unstudied, several important biblical commentar... more Abstract. –– Though they are largely unedited and unstudied, several important biblical commentaries survive from late-fourteenth- and early-fifteenth-century Oxford. Among these is the gloss on the ferial canticles by Richard Ullerston, an Oxford theologian and influential ecclesiast in Chichele’s Church. The present essay offers an account of the manuscripts of this commentary, suggests how the text might be related to the lectures on the Psalms delivered by Ullerston in 1415, and (as its focus) determines the relationship that exists among the various versions of this commentary. Finally, the reasons why Ullerston may have sought to revise his text are explored.

Résumé. –– Beryl Smalley a attribué à tort Stegmüller n° 5337/5340 à Yves II de Chartres. La comp... more Résumé. –– Beryl Smalley a attribué à tort Stegmüller n° 5337/5340 à Yves II de Chartres. La comparaison de ce texte avec d’autres commentaires datables montre qu’il a été composé dans les dernières décennies du XIe siècle, avant qu’Yves n’enseigne, puisque sa dépendance du Psautier glosé ms. Reims, BM 133, prouve qu’il est un produit de l’école cathédrale de Reims. En réalité, le commentaire est attribué à Jean, un ancien maître de Reims, dans le catalogue du XIIe siècle de l’abbaye de Jean, Saint-Evroult. Le commentaire survit en trois recensions, ainsi que dans deux rédactions interpolées, toutes décrites ici. L’étude s’achève par des appendices qui fournissent la liste des manuscrits subsistants et donnent l’édition des prologues et de la glose du Ps. 1.

Abstract. –– Stegmüller no. 5337/5340 was misattributed by Beryl Smalley to Ivo II of Chartres; comparison of this text to other dateable commentaries reveals that it was composed in the final decades of the eleventh century, before Ivo taught, while its dependence on the glossed Psalter in MS Rheims BM 133 reveals that it was a product of the cathedral school of Rheims. Indeed, the commentary appears to be attributed to John, a former master of Rheims, in the twelfth-century catalogue of John’s abbey of St.-Evroult. This commentary survives in three recensions, as well as two interpolated redactions, all of which are described; the essay concludes with appendices which list the extant manuscripts of the commentary and provide an edition of the prologues and gloss on Ps. 1.

Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and history was remembered... more Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West. The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and monasteries, along with other officials who often shared their duties, were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations season by season, managing the library and preparing manuscripts and other sources necessary to sustain the liturgical framework of time, and promoting the cults of saints. Crucially, their duties also often included committing the past to writing, from simple annals and chronicles to more fulsome histories, necrologies, and cartularies, thereby ensuring that towns, churches, families, and individuals could be commemorated for generations to come.

This interdisciplinary book is the first of its kind to be dedicated wholly to exploring these cantors and their craft. As the use of this word––“craft”––in our titles suggests, the essays in this volume are studies of constructions, both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written records. These essays respond to a fundamental question: How can the range of cantors’ activities help us understand the many different ways in which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated across this long period? Our contributors present a variety of different approaches to answering this question, and in the process their essays recover some of the multifaceted work of medieval history-making. In most cases, their answers involve recourse to the liturgy, a mode of history-production in which all members of the community––lay and religious, men and women––had roles to play. Cantors, as this volume makes clear, shaped the communal experience of the past in the Middle Ages.

Contributors include: Cara Aspesi, Alison I. Beach, Katie Bugyis, Anna de Bakker, Margot Fassler, David Ganz, James Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, Peter Jeffery, CJ Jones, Andrew Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes, Susan Rankin, C. C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonneysn, Tessa Webber, and Lauren Whitnah.

My dissertation, which I am in the process of revising, offers the first sustained reading of Eng... more My dissertation, which I am in the process of revising, offers the first sustained reading of English biblical criticism at the end of the Middle Ages; it proposes, against earlier generalizations about ‘medieval hermeneutics’, the competing priorities of totalizing scholastic theories and hermeneutic traditions proper to individual biblical books; it recovers the importance of the commentarial form for the earliest English translations of the Bible, arguing that, in this period, biblical translation is best considered an aspect of the scholastic enterprise of interpretation; and it demonstrates the heretofore unappreciated popularity of this literary form up to, and beyond, the English Reformation.

From the publisher: This volume offers a first edition of three homiletic works by the twelfth-c... more From the publisher:

This volume offers a first edition of three homiletic works by the twelfth-century canon regular William of Newburgh: a homily on Luke 11.27 that explores in two successive sections the literal and typological exegesis of the passage, respectively; a sermon on the Trinity, structured as an extended exegesis of the Gloria Patri and the Benedicamus, and owing much to Augustinian notions of the Trinitarian structure of the human soul as an image of God; and a sermon on the martyrdom of St Alban which extrapolates from relatively brief references to the details of the narrative in order to explore the nature of martyrdom and the union of the martyr’s soul with Christ. Together they constitute a significant witness to the development of meditative theology as a vehicle of spirituality in England in the generations after Anselm. In keeping with the principles of the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series, the texts are edited from a single MS witness, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C. 31 in the case of the first two works and that of London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 73 in the case of the third, with judicious appeal to the other two MSS for variant readings only where the reading of the base MS is clearly defective. The volume concludes with an index of biblical citations.

in Medieval Cantors and their Craft (see "books").

The Library, 7th ser., 16 (2015): 458-66. BL MS Arundel 158, a copy of Richard Rolle’s English P... more The Library, 7th ser., 16 (2015): 458-66.

BL MS Arundel 158, a copy of Richard Rolle’s English Psalter, contains a series of annotations in the hand of Stephan Batman, providing one further example to illustrate Batman’s interest in Middle English biblical literature, and also identifying the precise date of Batman’s birth.

Abstract. –– Though they are largely unedited and unstudied, several important biblical commentar... more Abstract. –– Though they are largely unedited and unstudied, several important biblical commentaries survive from late-fourteenth- and early-fifteenth-century Oxford. Among these is the gloss on the ferial canticles by Richard Ullerston, an Oxford theologian and influential ecclesiast in Chichele’s Church. The present essay offers an account of the manuscripts of this commentary, suggests how the text might be related to the lectures on the Psalms delivered by Ullerston in 1415, and (as its focus) determines the relationship that exists among the various versions of this commentary. Finally, the reasons why Ullerston may have sought to revise his text are explored.

Résumé. –– Beryl Smalley a attribué à tort Stegmüller n° 5337/5340 à Yves II de Chartres. La comp... more Résumé. –– Beryl Smalley a attribué à tort Stegmüller n° 5337/5340 à Yves II de Chartres. La comparaison de ce texte avec d’autres commentaires datables montre qu’il a été composé dans les dernières décennies du XIe siècle, avant qu’Yves n’enseigne, puisque sa dépendance du Psautier glosé ms. Reims, BM 133, prouve qu’il est un produit de l’école cathédrale de Reims. En réalité, le commentaire est attribué à Jean, un ancien maître de Reims, dans le catalogue du XIIe siècle de l’abbaye de Jean, Saint-Evroult. Le commentaire survit en trois recensions, ainsi que dans deux rédactions interpolées, toutes décrites ici. L’étude s’achève par des appendices qui fournissent la liste des manuscrits subsistants et donnent l’édition des prologues et de la glose du Ps. 1.

Abstract. –– Stegmüller no. 5337/5340 was misattributed by Beryl Smalley to Ivo II of Chartres; comparison of this text to other dateable commentaries reveals that it was composed in the final decades of the eleventh century, before Ivo taught, while its dependence on the glossed Psalter in MS Rheims BM 133 reveals that it was a product of the cathedral school of Rheims. Indeed, the commentary appears to be attributed to John, a former master of Rheims, in the twelfth-century catalogue of John’s abbey of St.-Evroult. This commentary survives in three recensions, as well as two interpolated redactions, all of which are described; the essay concludes with appendices which list the extant manuscripts of the commentary and provide an edition of the prologues and gloss on Ps. 1.

JEGP 112:2 (2013): 217-18

Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 38 (2012): 242-47

Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 39 (2013): 238-43