19/11/2025
Liturgical books were undoubtedly the most common books of the Middle Ages, and the ones whose contents reached the largest number of people. This applies especially to their music, the reception and experience of which did not require competence in Latin. Simultaneously, they were particularly vulnerable to the ravages of time, be it upheavals like the suppression of monasteries or Reformation movements, or more mundane obsolescence and decay. As a result, scholarly understanding of medieval liturgical practices, the books on which these practices were based, and the relationship between the two, remains far from complete.
