Muziek, liturgie en herinnering van de doden in Engeland tussen laat Middeleeuwen en vroege Tudor tijdperk Music, liturgy and remembrance of the dead in England between late Middle Ages and early Tudor era

The Thesis explores the origins of anglican liturgical music either from the musicological and liturgical point of view. The period taken into account is from Late Middle Age and the early Tudor era, with particular insight on the mutations occurred during Edward VI's reign. The investigation precincts is focused specifically on the reformed liturgy for the dead. Infact, it is inside the context of intercessory liturgies that the development of english ecclesiastical polifony took place. The study highlights that liturgical innovations introduced with the anglican reformation led to a peculiar synthesis between continuum elements with Late Middle Age traditions and the acceptance of the most important instances of the Reformation. The topic on the memory of the dead is confronted from a ritualistic point of view but theological and anthropological ones, too, pointing out some changes occurred during the passage from the Late Middle Age and Early Modern Era on resignification of the relationship between the living and the dead.