Liturgical life and latin learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425

By Susan Marti, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, Margot Elsbeth Fassler

Subjects: Sequences (Liturgy), Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts, Dominikanerinnenkloster Paradiese (Soest, Germany), Liturgics, Manuscripts, Graduals (Liturgical books), Scriptoria, Liturgy, Catholic Church, Themes, motives

Description: Written by an international team consisting of two art historians, a historian, and a musicologist, this study explores the intellectual, scribal, artistic and musical culture of the Dominican nuns of Paradies from a variety of perspectives. Taking as its subject a little-known group of fourteenthand early fifteenth-century liturgical manuscripts from the Dominican convent of Paradies bei Soest (Westphalia), the book also offers a revisionary account of the development of the Dominican order in late medieval Germany. Two antiphonaries, three graduals and additional fragments made both for and by the nuns testify to a self-conscious liturgical culture closely tied to the development of the Dominican order's female branch.