Kultgeschichte als Musikgeschichte : Offizienzyklen zu Ehren der heiligen Ursula und der elftausend Kölner Jungfrauen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Laudeszyklus In choro sanctorum

International audienceThe virgin Ursula with Pinnosa, Saula, Martha and supposedly 10997 others experienced an unprecedented rise between late antiquity and early modern times, starting with the mention on a probably Carolingian inscription up to a cult spread all over Europe. The cult of the group of virgins originated in a Cologne community of Sanctimoniales, the oldest core lauds, In choro sanctorum at Sanctimoniales in Essen (10th c.), which were transferred within their Ottonian network to the Quedlinburg community (11th c.). The oldest cycles of office that have been studied, dates from the 12th c., and are Benedictine, the eastern ones are rather Hirsauian and the western ones Cluniac. In the 13th century the Cistercians became an important distributor of relics and the cult associated with them. From the late 13th c. the cult received new impulses through the Dominicans and their hagiographic writings