Description: Written by an international team consisting of two art historians, an 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 fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century liturgi
Review Quotes: "The scope of the study and the amount of information assembled here will likely make Paradies and its manuscripts the ruler by which all similar foundations with a surviving artistic, intellectual, and musical patrimony will be measured." --Diane J. Reilly, The Medieval Review 18.11.09