Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland

Ann Buckley is Research Associate at the Medieval History Research Centre of Trinity College Dublin. Her publications include Music, Liturgy and the Veneration of Saints of the Medieval Irish Church in a European Context, ed. Ann Buckley (2017), along with other edited collections and individual articles on music in medieval Ireland, Latin and vernacular monophonic song, and the history and archaeology of musical instruments. Lisa Colton is Reader in Musicology at the University of Huddersfield. Her publications include Angel Song: Medieval English Music in History (2017), Gender, Age, and Musical Creativity (with Catherine Haworth, 2015) and Sources of Identity: Makers, Owners, and Users of Music Sources Before 1600 (with Tim Shephard, 2017).

'Overall, this collection of essays presents extremely stimulating reflections on the complexity of insular liturgical culture … The volume as a whole values the variability of the sources, including their inconsistencies, revisions, and even contradictions, an approach that can be applied well beyond the disciplines of music and liturgy.' Catherine Saucier, Le Moyen Âge

• Part I. Liturgical Texts and their Contexts: 1. Textual witnesses to insular liturgies Ann Buckley and Lisa Colton; 2. Contexts for the late medieval pontifical of Anian, bishop of Bangor: Issues of the 'Local' and the 'More-Than-Local' John Harper; 3. Insular uses other than that of Salisbury John Caldwell; 4. Saints and their sung texts in manuscripts of the Sarum Sanctorale: The case of Margaret, Virgin and Martyr Matthew Cheung Salisbury; Part II. Patterns in the Veneration of Regional and Local Saints in Insular Liturgical Sources: 5. Introduction to Part II Ann Buckley and Lisa Colton; 6. Plainchant offices for the saints of medieval Britain and Ireland: Some reflections on their local and national significance David Hiley; 7. Insular saints in Irish Sarum sources of the office Ann Buckley; 8. Responsory verses for Irish and insular saints: Medieval singer-composers at work Barbara Haggh-Huglo; 9. Pater Columba: The Irish and Scottish offices of St Columba of Iona (Colum Cille) Ann Buckley; Part III. Textual Witnesses to Insular-Continental Networks: 10. Introduction to Part III Ann Buckley and Lisa Colton; 11. Nation, Identity and the Liturgical Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Twelfth-Century England James J. Blasina; 12. The Dominicans and their Identity in Medieval Britain and Ireland: Evidence from Dominican Gospel Lections Eleanor J. Giraud; 13. Liturgy and Devotion in Insular Witnesses to the Cult of the Three Kings of Cologne Lisa Colton; Bibliography.