On the trail of the Holy Roman Empire

Stuart Chessman has an enjoyable series of posts under this title on the blog of the Society of St Hugh of Cluny. This is a Connecticut based group working to realise the vision  inherent in ‘Summorum  Pontificum’, utilising fine liturgy and music. It must be good if it seeks to facilitate  ‘Summorum Pontificum’ and invokes the spirit and patronage of Cluny and the Abbot who ruled it from 1049 until his death in 1109. In this series of linked posts it concerns itself with the Holy Roman Empire and with the Habsburgs.

The posts refer both to exhibitions and to his travels in Germany. He has pertinent comments about an American lecturer’s politically correct - and biased - sensitivities and about modern church furnishings in Frankfurt, and a delightful description by the nineteen year old Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, a young Prussian student whose eyes were opened to the splendours of Catholic worship on a visit to Bamberg - still a treasure house of the ecclesiastical arts - in 1793.

The posts can be seen at 

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