Yossi Maurey

Yossi Maurey is chair of the Department of Musicology and holds the Hans J. Salter Chair in Musicology of the Faculty of Humanities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He teaches at the Department since 2008, and specializes in medieval music, liturgy, and manuscripts.

He specializes in medieval sacred music, liturgy, and ritual, and has a special interest in the confluence of theology, music, manuscript culture and ideology. Maury’s monograph Medieval Music, Legend, and the Cult of St Martin: The Local Foundations of a Universal Saint appeared in 2014 with Cambridge University Press. The book won the 2015 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines. 

The Project

Title: The liturgy of the Sainte-Chapelle

Hosting institutions:

Associate researcher at IRéMus, Institut de Recherches en Musicologie | CNRS, Sorbonne-Université.

Research fellow of the Collège de France, Prof. Thomas Römer, Chaire Milieux bibliques (2023).

Selective bibliography

• A New Promised Land: The Sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/ Musicological Studies. Forthcoming 2020.
• The Dominican Mass and Office for the Crown of Thorns.  Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/ Musicological Studies. Lions Bay, Canada: The Institute of Mediæval Music, 2019 (sous presse).
• Christine Bousquet-Labouérie, and Yossi Maurey, eds. Espace sacré, mémoire sacrée. Le culte des évêques dans leurs villes, IVe-XXe siècle: Actes du colloque de Tours, 10-12 juin 2010. Hagiologia, Vol. 10 (Brepols, 2015).
• Historia Sancti Gatiani, Episcopi Turonensis. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/ Musicological Studies LXV/23. Lions Bay, Canada: The Institute of Mediæval Music, 2014.
• Medieval Music, Legend, and The Cult of St Martin: The Local Foundations of a Universal Saint. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• Joan Goodnick-Westenholz, Yossi Maurey and Edwin Seroussi, eds. Sounds from the Past: Music in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg; Yuval – Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre 8. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2014.
• “The Liturgy for the Crown of Thorns: Music, Public Relations, and Ritual.”  In Sound, Image, and Space, eds. Yossi Maurey, Galit Noga-Banai, Iris Shagrir, and Sarit Shalev-Einy.  Magnes Press, 2020, forthcoming (in Hebrew).
• “Mapping Liturgical Space in Medieval Tours: Processions as instruments of Power.” In Prozessionen und ihre Gesänge in der mittelalterlichen Stadt: Gestalt - Hermeneutik – Repräsentation. Edited by Harald Buchinger, David Hiley, Sabine Reichert. Forum Mittelalter — Studien, vol. 13. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2017, 201-208.
• “Bréviaire à l’usage de Saint-Martin de Tours.” In Martin de Tours: Le rayonnement de la cité.  Edited by Sophie Join-Lambert, 258.  Musée des Beaux Arts de Tours, Silvana Editoriale, 2016.
• Yossi Maurey and Amir S. Fink, “Putting the Seal on Ma’adana: A Case of Forgery and Its Ramifications.” In Alphabets, Texts and Artefacts in the Ancient Near East, Studies Presented to Benjamin Sass, edited by Israel Finkelstein, Christian Robin, and Thomas Römer, 255-269. Paris: Van Dieren, 2016.