The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo

by Lorenzo Candelaria

Book Overview

Unlocks the secrets behind the images and music of an important Spanish musical manuscript compiled for a brotherhood of suspected heretics ca. 1500.

The Rosary Cantoral is a rare and beautifully decorated manuscript of Latin plainchant for the Catholic Mass compiled in Toledo, Spain, around the year 1500. In an engaging and richly interdisciplinary essay, Lorenzo Candelaria approaches the Rosary Cantoral as a cultural artifact, unlocking the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580463541
• ISBN13: 9781580463546
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"