Communication by Kristin Hoefener (EMS) in Naples, Italy

CESEM’s researcher Kristin Hoefener (Early Music Studies Group) will present at the conference Rappresentare l’Aldilà nel Medioevo latino e romanzo (Naples, November 5–7) a paper on the Dies irae, tracing its origin, transmission, and reinterpretation from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century within Franciscan and Dominican contexts.

A musicological session will examine how medieval chant shaped representations of the afterlife — from the visionary soundscapes of Saint Michael’s feasts around the year 1000 to the Dies irae of the later Middle Ages. Her paper explores how liturgical music rendered celestial visions and eschatological fears audible, revealing how sound mediated between the earthly and the divine.

Check out the researcher’s latest article, “Liturgical Chant and Devotional Practices in Late Medieval Dominican Nunneries”.