Institute of Historical Research, History of Liturgy Seminar
Study Day: New Directions in the History of Liturgy

Saturday 18 May, 10am-5pm

Bloomsbury Room, G35, Ground Floor, 
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

9.45am Arrival

10am 
NARRATIVES IN AND OF THE MEDIEVAL OFFICE I  
Chair: Henry Parkes (University of Nottingham)

• Teresa Webber (University of Cambridge), ‘Narrative and the Annual Cycle of Biblical Reading in the Night Office’
• Margot Fassler (University of Notre Dame), ‘The Timescape of the Purification Office in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Paris’
• Fraser McNair (University of Nottingham), ‘Improvisation and the Holy in the Central Medieval Night Office’

11.30am Refreshments

12pm
LIGHTNING TALKS I  
Chair: Helen Gittos (University of Oxford)

• Vedran Sulovsky (University of Cambridge), ‘Using the Liturgy to Understand Hohenstaufen-Era Aachen’
• Anastasia Shmytova (Princeton University), ‘Khabuvy, anenaiki: Towards an Understanding of the Use and Reception of Nonsensical Syllables in Russian Orthodox Chant’
• Emma Olson (University of Cambridge), ‘The Power of Prayer in Albigensian Crusade and Reconquista Narratives’
• Thomas Phillips (University of Bristol), ‘Norman Influence and Anglo-Saxon Remnants in Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 4: The Office of St. Alban’
• Giulio Minniti (University of Oslo), ‘“Gallican” Chant in the Margins of Non-Musical Manuscripts’
• Cassandra Fenton (University of Bristol), ‘Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 163: Informing Approaches to Music and Liturgy in English Pontificals’

1.15pm Lunch

2.15pm
NARRATIVES IN AND OF THE MEDIEVAL OFFICE II 
Chair: Teresa Webber (University of Cambridge)

• Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge), ‘Carolingian Revision of Roman Liturgy: The Office for St Stephen’
• Jesse Billett (Trinity College in the University of Toronto), ‘Micro-storytelling through Nocturns Responsories in the Ordines Associated with William of Volpiano’
• Helen Gittos (University of Oxford), ‘Poet, Rebel, Priest: The Ludlow Scribe and Liturgy in French in the Fourteenth Century’

3.45pm Break

4.00pm 
LIGHTNING TALKS II AND CLOSING DISCUSSION
Chair: Sarah Hamilton (University of Exeter)

• Michael Carter (English Heritage), ‘Interpreting Monastic Remains for 21st-Century Audiences: The Role of the Liturgy’
• Helena Phillips-Robins (University of Cambridge), ‘Liturgy and Experience in the Letters of Clare of Assisi (1234-1253)’
• Rose Walker (Courtauld Institute of Art), ‘Relics Between Al-Andalus and the Christian Kingdoms: Purifying the Act’

5pm Close

Drinks to follow

Registration: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/new-directions-history-liturgy