December 1, 2022
"Did nuns in Medieval Europe sing anything other than chants and sacred songs? Mary Caldwell discusses one example, a song performed during the Christmas season."
Read the seasonally timely guest post by Professor Caldwell in Women's Song Forum (WSF), an online forum devoted to women’s voices in song, to the many songs by women, and to the many female musicians working in and with song, who have yet to be given the attention they deserve.
Photo: Depiction of Herrad and her community in Christian Moritz Engelhardt’s book, Herrad von Landsperg (full citation here), tab. XII (fol. 392r)