Interview with Uri Smilansky
“It has always been the case that music is not just for specialists. I’d like to work on expanding the understanding of music as a social topic within the context of other aspects of culture.”
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Hitting the Ground Running – Importance of First Impressions by Uri Smilansky
As it is often difficult to find evidence of cultural activities even for well documented figures, this link is really intriguing. Machaut’s multiple manuscript-collections of text and music are prime surviving examples of the kind of object I am pursuing. In looking at them, I ask not what they say about Machaut, but about their owners – I do not compare the quality of readings, but the effect of their general presentation.
It’s not what you know III: More Networking [in] Salzburg by David Murray
In this third and final post in the series, David turns his attention to another figure from the circle of Pilgrim von Puchheim. Although Wilderich de Mitra spent only a few years in Salzburg itself, his influence was considerable and shines a light on the tangle of ecclesiastical and political connections that passed through Salzburg in the later fourteenth century.
It’s not what you know II: Networking Salzburg by David Murray
Following on from the first post in this series, in which David Murray discussed Pilgrim II’s circles in Avignon, he turns now to the members of Pilgrim’s court once he ascended to the Throne of St Ruprecht and became Archbishop of Salzburg.
It’s not what you know I: On medieval friends in high places
In this series of three posts, David Murray writes about some of the connections between his favourite Archbishop of Salzburg, Pilgrim II (r. 1365-1396) and other figures in the medieval Chruch, as well as some of Pilgrim’s secular allies.
Transnationalism at Court, University of Liège – 21st and 22nd March 2019
After a series of study days held in Oxford, the MALMECC team co-organized a conference at the University of Liège with the local research unit ‘Transitions: Moyen Âge et première Modernité’.
There’s Something About Mary….
In this post, David Murray writes about the importance of the Virgin Mary in and around 14th century Salzburg.
Charlemagne’s Late Medieval Fans
In the second of her blog posts on Aachen Cathedral, Laura Slater muses on some of the pieces in the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, and Charles IV’s penchant for relics…
Aachen, via Rome and Jerusalem
After the workshop in Liège, the MALMECC team went to visit Charlemagne’s palace chapel in Aachen, also known as Aix-la-Chapelle. Charlemagne (742-814) was one of the greatest medieval rulers. In this post, Laura Slater writes about their trip.
Singing to Heaven in the Ghent Altarpiece
In her final post in this series, Laura looks at the role of music in the images of the Ghent Altarpiece, where holy sounds seem just as important as holy sights.