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The Christian West and its Singers: The First Thousand Years

This book presents an argument about the emergence and evolution of the role of liturgical singers which is traced, in great detail, from the New Testament period to the twelfth century. The narrative sources for the book are in Greek, Latin, Syriac and early Romance. The sources are extremely sparse; the approach of the book is to attempt the richest possible reading of them by contextualising them in terms of social, economic, political, literary and musical history from the first century AD to the twelfth. This was a substantial work of synthesis which took twelve years of reading and reflection.