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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Contrafacta of Operatic Arias among the Dominicans of Baroque Silesia

open access: yesDe Musica Disserenda, 2015
The paper discusses contrafactum practice in the manuscripts of Pius Hancke, a Dominican monk from Silesia. His scores point to pathways for the dissemination of the operatic repertory and document the process of change in its social function associated ...
Tomasz Jeż
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Citations of \u27noster\u27 John Pecham in Richard Fleming\u27s Trinity Sunday sermon: evidence for the political use of liturgical music at the Council of Constance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article examines a sermon for Trinity Sunday that was delivered by Richard Fleming at the Council of Constance in 1417. The author argues that Fleming’s citation of liturgical chant and a homily composed by John Pecham, together with certain ...
Nighman, Chris L.
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 166-189, April 2026.
Abstract In 2019, the Foundation of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth‐century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves and endleaf guards.
Tamara Atkin
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Medieval Chant and Digital Technology: A Website for Liturgical Prosulas

open access: yesPro Musica Sacra, 2021
Chants Hypertexts is a companion website for a forthcoming book that is a study and edition of a substantial body of liturgical music from medieval southern Italy, that of the prosulas of the Proper of the Mass included in the so-called Beneventan ...
Luisa Nardini
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The date and context of the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 70-100, February 2026.
The Astronomer's Life of the emperor Louis the Pious (814–40) is a canonical source for scholars of Frankish history. It sits at the centre of recent debates about the nature and tone of Carolingian political discourse, and about the crisis of the empire in the 830s.
Simon MacLean
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Развој литургике у руским духовним академијама у другој половини 19. и почетком 20. вијека

open access: yesGodišnjak, 2023
The formation of Liturgics as an autonomous theological discipline in Russian theological academies began in the first decades of the 19th century and was completed with the establishment of a special cathedra for Liturgics and Church Archeology during ...
Slobodan Lukić
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‘That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm’: The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture and Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 30-53, January 2026.
Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
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