John Haines, Were Books of Hours Sung? Some Thoughts on Music in Medieval Life

When and Where

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Senior Common Room
Brennan Hall
81 A St Mary St, Toronto, ON M5S 1J4

Speakers

John Haines

Description

The Department of French at the University of Toronto presents John HainesWere Books of Hours Sung? Some Thoughts on Music in Medieval Life.

Were Books of Hours Sung?

 

Biography

John Haines is professor of music and medieval studies at the University of Toronto. He has published on the music of the Middle Ages and its modern reception in a variety of journals, both musicological – from Early Music History to Popular Music – and non-musicological – from Romania to Scriptorium. Recent books include Medieval Song in Romance Languages (Cambridge, 2010) and Music in Films on the Middle Ages: Fantasy vs. Authenticity (Routledge, 2013). He is a contributor, among others, to The Cambridge History of Medieval Music and The Oxford Handbook of Music Revivals, both forthcoming.

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Sponsors

Project Books of Hours in Canada (SSHRC)