"sounding the saints in books of hours"

A lecture by Michael Alan Anderson. In person only

Regarded as the “best-seller of the Middle Ages,” books of hours offered guides to prayer for medieval Christians in a compact, portable form. This lecture highlights the role of the saints in these widespread devotional books, as well as music prescribed for these venerable figures of the faith.

Michael Alan Anderson is Professor and Chair of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. He specializes in a wide range of issues related to sacred music from the fourteenth through the sixteenth century, with emphasis on lay devotion  and saints. He is the author of Music and Performance in the Book of Hours (Routledge Press, 2022) and St. Anne in Renaissance Music: Devotion and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Since 2008, he has served as artistic director of Schola Antiqua, a Chicago-based professional early music ensemble.