Flannery McIntyre is a PhD candidate in Musicology and Medieval Studies. Her dissertation,“Music and the Materiality of Knowledge in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,” offers an alternative narrative for the role of music in Late Antique and Early Medieval culture. Whereas music in this period has traditionally been understood as a precursor to the liturgical standardization and the development of music notation in the ninth century, such a teleological focus obscures other facets of musical activity. Her approach, by contrast, centers material culture, allowing for a larger, more...
