Cluny at Fynystere: One Use, Three Fragments (original) (raw)
Peter Damian on Cluny, Liturgy and Penance
Journal of Religious History, 1988
When one considers the liturgy performed at Cluny in the eleventh century, its prodigious length is striking. A cursory view of the liturgy reveals clearly that it had expanded far beyond the boundaries established for the canonical hours in St Benedict's Rule. While the Rule directs Benedictine monks to complete the entire psalter each week during the performance of the Divine Office,' at Cluny in the late eleventh century the community may have chanted as many as 215 psalms in a single day.' Moreover, the expansion of the liturgy at Cluny was paralleled by a development in the ceremony which accompanied it, including extended processions, ritual and elaborate chant or musical settings.
The main purpose of this study is to demonstrate the relationship between the affirmation of the cult of the Blessed Sacrament starting at the late twelfth century, and the characteristics of the objects directly related to the Body of Our Lord: chalices and patens, Host boxes, ciboria and monstrances. The privileged sources for this research relate to the Visitations Books conducted between the last quarter of the fifteenth century and about 1571 to the churches under the jurisdiction of the Military Orders of Christ, Avis and Santiago, in Portugal. The results of this study demonstrate the survival of Gothic forms in Portuguese sacred jewellery during the first quarter of the sixteenth century (and even second), despite the introduction of the " Roman-style " decorative elements since the early days of this same century. En el nombre del Señor: la afirmación del culto al Santísimo Sacramento y los objetos litúrgicos de finales de la Edad Media en Portugal Resumen El principal propósito de este estudio es demostrar la relación entre la afirmación del culto a la Eucaristía iniciado a finales del siglo XII y las características de los objetos directamente vinculados con el cuer-po de Cristo: cálices y patenas, porta hostias, copones y custodias. Las fuentes privilegiadas para esta investigación son los Libros de Visitas llevadas a cabo entre el último cuarto del siglo XV y hacia 1571 en las iglesias bajo la jurisdicción de las órdenes militares de Cristo, Avis y Santiago en Portugal. Los resultados de este estudio demuestran la persistencia de las formas góticas en la orfebrería sacra portu-guesa durante el primer cuarto del siglo XVI (e incluso el segundo) pese a la introducción de elementos decorativos " a la romana " desde comienzos de la misma centuria.
Textus & Musica [En ligne], Les numéros, 7 | 2023 - Performance of Medieval Monophony: Text and Image as Evidence for Musical Practice, Performance of Medieval Monophony: Text and Image as Evidence for Musical Practice, 2023
This article addresses the transmission context of a formerly unknown text on music theory, copied on the verso of the last folio of a gradual (Lisbon, BnP, L.C. 238), which was part of a set of choirbooks commissioned by Catarina d’Eça, abbess of Santa María de Lorvão (1471-1521). The article discusses this source within the broader context of the production and circulation of liturgical books, particularly among Cistercian nuns. It reviews some assumptions concerning women’s agency in creating and performing liturgy and the negotiation between nuns and priests over nearly every aspect of liturgical care. It shows how the role of both lay and religious women as mediators across and between religious orders and kingdoms or territories can no longer be overlooked. The last section examines the theoretical sources of this brief musical treatise to determine whether the author of the text drew on the tradition of the Bernardian reform, or on other kinds of musical sources from outside the Cistercian tradition. Both the sources and the use of the Castilian language shed light on the origins of the text’s author.
VOLZONE, Rolando; FONTES, João Luís (ed) - Architectures of the Soul. Diachronic and Multidisciplinary Readings, 2022
In 1211, the Monastery of Lorvão became home to the first Cistercian nunnery to be established in Portugal. Surviving from this community are some three dozen (mostly) liturgical codices, produced 1211-c.1700, providing important evidence of ritual practices in this female house which is especially valuable when viewed against the broader panorama of Cistercian experience both in Portugal and beyond. This paper subjects two liturgical codices of Lorvão, one a Processional and one a Ceremonial, to a contextualised analysis in order to probe the potential of these works for shedding light on matters relating to how liturgy was performed during, for example, processions and other rituals inherent to the monastic life. Additional consideration is given to the extent to which the stipulations of the regulatory framework promulgated by the Cistercian General Chapter were, or were not, fulfilled, as well as highlighting the existence of modifications made to those regulations, adapting various rituals to better fit the specific spaces available in the monastic precinct of this celebrated Cistercian convent.
Visigothic Symposia, 2017
In the eleventh century, Iberian monasticism became " regularized " and embraced, often by royal imposition, Benedictine monastic customs. Since its origins in the fourth and fifth centuries, the nature of monastic life in the Iberian Peninsula continually evolved and developed an identity of its own. The sixth and seventh centuries represent a key moment in that evolution, thanks to Martin of Braga, Isidore of Seville and Fructuosus of Braga, and others. According to Ildefonsus of Toledo, it was the north African monk Donatus who introduced into Iberia, in the last quarter of the sixth century, the custom of following a defined rule and who also founded the monastery at Servitanum. In this essay, I will lay out the tangible influences on the growth of Iberian monasticism of monastic movements, rules and customs from elsewhere and, from that, elicit the unique development of Iberian monastic identities and monastic environments.
2017
This article intends to focus on the first phase of construction of the cloister of Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Nova in Coimbra (Portugal), characterized by the architectural and military tratadistics of the Restoration period. From the documentary research and the projectual representation, it is proposed to contextualize its original typology. The cloister of Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Nova, although it is a major work of the Restoration and the Cycle of Aqueduto das Águas Livres of Lisboa, is poorly studied. At a time when the work of the kingdom was conditioned by the expenses of the war, those of greater relevance were of military character and erected in the geographical areas of territorial defence. It is perhaps necessary to prove the legitimacy of Portuguese independence, which led to the reinforcement of the use of mental processes and scholastic theses, which will cultivate the propagandist of Culto Isabelino in Casa de Bragança. [1] The progressive silting of the old conven...