Archive with Post Titles

• Silences That Hurt: The Nashville Symphony’s 2026–27 Season Suspension (9/29/26)
• “I Sang with the Others”: Voice, Healing, and Margaret of Hungary (9/25/26)
• Reading With a Job to Do (9/22/26)
• AR for Your Ears (9/17/26)
• Guarding the Mouth: Speech and Silence in Thalbach’s 1479 Statutes  (9/11/26)
• From Conference Paper to Article: Turning Talk into Prose  (9/9/26)
• Laboring on Labor Day in the Vineyard of Life  (9/7/26)
• Nobody Wants to Work for Free: Bregenz Clergy Complain in 1703  (9/3/26)
• A Blogroll for the Avid Reader (8/30/26)
• Who Gets to Pick the Priest? Bregenz Remembers Its Church  (8/26/26)
• The Vorarlberg Chapel I Wasn’t Looking For  (8/22/26)
• Why Does a Bad King Get a Good Death? Imagining the Death of King Bolesław II  (8/19/26)
• Vacation work… not an oxymoron  (8/14/26)
• The Blood Caught My Eye, But Love Dominated: The Prayer Vocabulary of Innsbruck FB 1118  (8/6/26)
• Passion, Pain, and the Work of Prayer (8/4/26)
• First Monday of a New Month: What to Write?  (8/3/26)
• Supple Rules for Prayer: Daston’s Ideas Meet the 16thc Prayerbook  (7/31/26)
• On viewing the frescoes at St George’s, Reichenau (7/28/26)
• How Long Is a Long Prayer? Innsbruck FB 1118 (7/21/26)
• How Did Medieval People Learn Music? A Call for Papers (7/15/26)
• A Shared Devotional Grammar: Prayers after Communion  (7/10/26)
• Hantavirus Meets the Song World: Four Songs and a News Cycle (5/12/26)
• General Maxims, Cynthia Style  (5/2/26)
• Music as Distraction: Pandemic Coping from Boccaccio to TikTok (4/26/26)
• We Don’t Talk About COVID”: Cultural Amnesia, Set to Music (4/15/26)
• Poems from a Very Long Prayerbook(TM)  (3/29/26)
• Seven Times a Day: Prayer as Humane Practice (3/25/26)
• Discovering Johannes Nider on the fly: A binding fragment from Thalbach  (3/14/26)
• What Does the Medieval Past Sound Like? Alfred Schnittke’s Minnesang (1981)  (3/9/26)
• Counting Drop Caps: What a Prayerbook’s Initials Reveal about the Divine Office (3/4/26)
• The Whiteboard Where Big Things Live (2/27/26)
• Sooner or Later It All Gets Done: How History Emerges from Small Details (2/21/26)
• Threefold Illumination: A Nun’s Prayer After Communion (2/13/26)
• Practicing Death: The “Seven Last Words” at Thalbach  (2/2/26)
• Your Desert Island Symphony (1/31/26)
• Cadfael’s Lepers on World Leprosy Day (1/25/26)
• The Editing Horizon: Shaping the Argument First (1/24/26)
• A 16thc Segen for the Mass, Pt 2 (1/17/26)
• A Sixteenth-Century Segen for the Mass, Pt 1  (1/9/26)
• Happy January from the Teutsch Römisch Breuier (1535): Of Calendars, Convent Books, and the Lives They Touched  (1/1/26)
• Looking Back: Favorite Blog Posts of 2025 (12/29/25)
• What I'm Reading in Non-Fiction...2025 (12/25/25)
• What I'm reading...2025 (12/21/25)
• In praise of janky translations: an anti-google diatribe (12/13/25)
• Academic Games (12/12/25)
• Bregenz Shooting Confraternity of 1498 (12/7/25)
• A Bookish Saint from Brno (12/5/25)
• Manuscript and incunable research links  (11/30/25)
• Gratitudes (11/28/25)
• Everything Notebook Transitions (11/27/25)
• Carving the Nativity in 1520 [from Brno] (11/21/25) 
• Brno's Torso of Christ (11/19/25)
• The Swabian Madonna of Brno (11/18/25)
• Asian Sojourn 8: Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand (travel of 13-14 Jul 2025)  (11/17/25)
• Asian Sojourn 7: Life and Its Endings (Nepal’s Pashupatinath Temple) (travel of 12 Jul 2025)  (11/16/25)
• Asian Sojourn 6: Monkeys and Heights in Sacred Nepal (travel of 11-13 Jul 2025) (11/16/25)
• Asian Sojourn 5: Pokhara, Nepal (travel of 7-11 July 2025)  (11/16/25)
• Asian Sojourn 4: Nepal by bus (travel of 6 Jul 2025) (11/16/25)
• Singing to St Martin of Tours (11/11/25)
• The Taylor Swifting of Chant Performance (10/24/25)
• Of Space Aliens and Their Tentacles (10/20/25)
• The Silent Office Hour (10/16/25)
• Smells and bells? Just bells! (10/13/25)
• From Draft to Done (10/8/25)
• The silence of the woods is full of noise (10/6/25)
• Musicological Paper Structures 102 (10/2/25)
• Musicological Paper Structures 101 (10/1/25)
• Listening in on the Nuns’ Rebellion at Kloster Goldenstein  (9/27/25)
• Asian Sojourn 3: Living in Sacred Space – Kathmandu  (9/26/25)
• Attention filtering – the voluntary earlid (9/21/25)
• The Perfect Time to Write (9/17/25)
• An indulgence prayer for Mary of Swords (9/15/25)
• The Verbal Vocative: Change-Ringing Patterns of Marian Address in Der Herr ist mit dir  (9/7/25)
• When the Gestapo Came for the Sisters (9/6/25)
• Writing with Scissors and Tape (9/1/25)
• Asian Sojourn 2: Kathmandu: parade rest!  (8/30/25)
• Using Research Questions -- Defeat data-hoarding and discard the chaff!  (8/24/25)
• Asian Sojourn 1: The Hotel That Wasn't There (Delhi) (8/23/25) 
• The Silences of Summer (6/29/25)
• The North Wall of Brand’s Parish Church: Challenges of Interpretation  (6/8/25)
• The 1507 South Wall Frescoes of Brand’s Parish Church (Vorarlberg)  (6/6/25)
• Kin, Cash, and Convent: Providing for Nieces (and Nephews) in 1613 Bludenz (5/15/25)
• Why Illustrate a Prayerbook? (5/6/25)
• From Sea Lions to Sight-Singing: What Sea Mammals Know About Music  (5/2/25)
• A Handful of Sunrises (4/24/25)
• Musical Presence and Funeral Choices (4/20/25) 
• COVID’s Musical Humor: The Toilet Paper Chronicles (4/16/25)
• Arriving from Wealth: Rosina von Ems  (4/15/25)
• Managing Bibliography By Spreadsheet (4/5/25)
• Postulant, Novice, Professed: Initiation into Monastic Life (4/2/25)  
• Dominican Prayer Gestures (3/29/25)  
• How To Jump-Start a Scholarly Article: The Plan (3/22/25)
• Listening to the Birds (3/17/25)
• 50 Questions: Adulting As Faculty (3/12/25)
• Age and the Monastic Life at Thalbach in Bregenz (3/10/25)
• Satire, Sound, and Swine: The 2009 Flu Pandemic Goes (Musically) Viral (3/6/25)
• My Late Lamented “Everything Notebook” (3/3/25)
• The Seelengärtlein (Hortulus animae) 3/2/25 
• Flu Music as Mockery: The Flying Fish Sailors and Pandemic Humor (2/26/25) 
  
• Building for the Ear (from Chaco Canyon to Medieval Vorarlberg) (2/23/25)
  
• Mapping Soundscapes: Applying Stratoudakis and Papadimitriou’s Measures to Memory and Place (2/21/25)
• Sister Anna Wittweilerin Looks Up  (2/19/25)
• Making magic with old texts – how one scholar uses Transkribus (2/16/25)  
• Diligent Devotion: Maria Euphrosina Vöglin’s Leadership at Thalbach (2/14/25)
• Singing Tubercular songs with Fader Movitz (Fredman’s Epistles 1790) (Feb 11, 2025) 
• Not a Village, a Community: Building Thalbach’s Church (1609) (1/29/25)
• Singing & Change on World Leprosy Day (1/26/25)  
• When a 6-year-old brought a Marian Icon to Thalbach (1/22/25)
  
• Margery Kempe Listens (1/19/25)  
• News-as-Opera: Shenton/Steyer’s On Call: COVID-19 (2021) (1/17/25) 
• Documenting Lepers’ Lives: The House is Black (1962) (1/11/25)
  
• To Banish the Earworm: "If We Were Married" by Shaina Taub (1/8/25) 
• 2024 Silences and Sounds (12/31/24)
  
• Writing is momentum (12/28/24)  
• “Aged documents” in the Thalbach Monastery Chronicle (12/16/24) 
• Starting from a place of blah (12/11/24)  
• “Bulgy enlargement” and medieval hearing loss: Insights from Flohr and Kierdorf (2022) 
• Smooth or Spiky? November’s Sound Samples (12/2/24)  
• There is no quiet, no silence anywhere within! (11/28/24) 
  
• 19th Century poetic earlids and the Ovid rumor-mill (11/26/24)

• Earlids of the early 1900s (11/21/2024)

• Soundscape compositions, Chicago style (11/16/24)
  

• I am (not) a crocodile: Earlids and the thinking person (11/15/24) 
  

• Manipulations of reality’s sounds: Drever on Soundscape Composition (11/6/24)

• It’s not time travel: sound modeling of 1622 St Paul’s (10/31/24)

• Scoring for Calm or for Excitement? Smalley et al. (2023) on choices of sound in digital nature experiences (10/25/24)

• The Silence of Not-Writing – and What To Do About It (10/20/24)

• Political Scientist Sean Gray’s typology of political silences (10/13/24)

• Some Further Silences of Christina Rossetti (10/12/24)

• Summer’s Soundscape Research--by the Numbers (10/6/24)

• Christina Rossetti and the contemplation of silence (10/5/24)

• Why Silence (10/4/24)
  

• Why Sound? (9/30/24)

• Introduction (9/29/24)