Teams
In this research project, we worked with 5 research teams and 6 associate partners.
Research teams
| Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Charles University in Prague (Prague team) | Partner | Czech Republic |
| Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw team) | Partner | Poland |
| Heidelberg University/University of Zurich (Heidelberg team) | Partner | Germany/Switzerland |
| University of Cambridge (Cambridge team) | Partner | United Kingdom |
| Utrecht University (Utrecht team) | Coordinator | The Netherlands |
Associate partners
| Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymous III | Associate Partner | United Kingdom |
| Bastarda → website | Associate Partner | Poland |
| La Morra → website | Associate Partner | Switzerland |
| Schola Gregoriana Pragensis → website | Associate Partner | Czech Republic |
| Soundspace/Spacesound | Associate Partner | Czech Republic |
| Trigon Ensemble → website | Associate Partner | The Netherlands |
Our work can be divided into 4 categories:
- The Cambridge team addressed the cultural and intellectual background of the first large-scale retrospective music collections ever produced in Europe in the time of saintly French king Louis IX in Paris.
- Researchers in Utrecht explored the music cultivated by followers of the Modern Devotion in late-medieval Utrecht and of early-modern Beguines in Amsterdam, both evoking earlier, ‘better’ times through their choices of musical style and repertoire.
- The teams in Heidelberg/Zurich, Prague and Warsaw investigated the Lutheran liturgies of 16th-century Germany, and the enigmatic ‘retrospective’ musical practices of 14th, 15th and 16th-century Bohemia and Poland, which all sought to own the cultural capital invested in the past through cultivating ‘old-fashioned’, even ‘archaic’ musical styles.
- The Associate Partners disseminated our research results to the general public. They did so through innovative and traditional concert formats as well as via targeted media appearances on our own → YouTube video channel.
