In the Zone: Reconsidering the Beneventan Zone I

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for Beneventan Studies

Organizer Name

Andrew J. M. Irving

Organizer Affiliation

General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church

Presider Name

Richard Gyug

Presider Affiliation

Fordham Univ.

Paper Title 1

Beneventan Musical Notation and the "Beneventan Zone"

Presenter 1 Name

Matthew Peattie

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Cincinnati

Paper Title 2

When Worlds Collide: Layers of the Liturgical Year in Manuscripts of Beneventan Chant

Presenter 2 Name

Sophie Burton

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Bristol

Paper Title 3

Beneventan Script at the Crossroads of Monastic Reform

Presenter 3 Name

Charles Hilken

Presenter 3 Affiliation

St. Mary's College of California

Start Date

14-5-2015 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1265

Description

These two sessions ('Into the Zone' (I) and (II)'), will address afresh nature of the 'The Beneventan Zone' - a term coined by the palaeographer E. A. Lowe to describe and define the "script-zone" in Southern Italy that resisted the Caroline reforms. To what extent does a broader cultural Zone correspond to, reflect, or shape the “script zone” defined by the use of the southern Italian minuscule? What variation can be detected within the Zone and at its boundaries? The sessions consider musical, art and liturgical sources with produced "in the zone" to probe what the nature of that zone is.

Andrew J.M. Irving