Silences And Sounds

The back-end of the Thalbach prayerbook (ÖNB Cod. 11750, 56v-60r) provides an early modern devotional adaptation of the “Seven Last Words...

The Thalbach Segen for the Mass The first half of this Segen – which I posted about last week – establishes its logic through enclosure...

A “Segen” is a prayer genre that combines words, gestures, and formulas to bring about a positive end such as divine grace, desired happine...

The Thalbach Prayerbook is not a tidy manuscript. It isn’t richly illuminated, and its pages don’t draw they eye with color and beauty the ...

Imagine a prayer that goes on and on (and on and on), praising Mary in every imaginable way – her virtues, her role in salvation, her in...

Walk into the Parish church of Brand in Brandnertal, Vorarlberg, Austria, and you’ll notice several things. The first is that the church...