Review: Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300–1425: Inscription and Illumination in the Choir Books of a North German Dominican Convent, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, Susan Marti, and Margot Fassler

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Book Review| August 01 2018 Review: Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300–1425: Inscription and Illumination in the Choir Books of a North German Dominican Convent, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, Susan Marti, and Margot Fassler Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300–1425: Inscription and Illumination in the Choir Books of a North German Dominican Convent, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, Susan Marti, and Margot Fassler. 2 vols. Münster: Aschendorff, 2016. xiii, 781 pp.; xi, 636 pp. Nancy van Deusen Nancy van Deusen NANCY VAN DEUSEN is Professor of Musicology, Benezet Professor of the Humanities, at Claremont Graduate University. She has published on music within the medieval city of Rome, on music, liturgy, and institutional structure within the medieval cathedral milieu of Nevers, on the medieval Latin sequence, 900–1600, and on music as a discipline at the early university. Her book Music and Material Culture of Central Europe: “Old Stones,” Medieval Traditions, and Folk Songs is forthcoming (Brepols). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2018) 71 (2): 530–534. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2018.71.2.530 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nancy van Deusen; Review: Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300–1425: Inscription and Illumination in the Choir Books of a North German Dominican Convent, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, Susan Marti, and Margot Fassler. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 August 2018; 71 (2): 530–534. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2018.71.2.530 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search The sheer size and weight—that is, physical manifestation—of this huge publication encourages one to imagine that large-scale, extensive (and expensive), manuscript-oriented projects may yet receive the necessary resources to appear as hard-cover printed books, even though the topic may not seem either particularly far-reaching or of immediate or obvious importance. It is an extraordinarily imposing two-volume work, not least with respect to the sponsorship secured to fund its publication: the Suzanne and James Mellor Prize of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Anne and Jim Rothenberg Fund for Humanities Research, Harvard University; the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; the Department of Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame. Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest is a laudable fundraising project... You do not currently have access to this content.