Usquemodo, Aliquomodo, Quoquomodo
An early Cistercian pronunciation guide
This is an essay in Shaping Stability: Normative Sources and the Regulation of Religious Life, 800 - 1500, edited by Krijn Pansters and Abraham Plunkett-Latimer, in Disciplina Monastica (Louvain: Brepols, 2016)
“Focusing on the production and use of normative documents made by religious communities and monastic orders, Pansters and Plunkett-Latimer have curated a collection of masterful essays.”
— Lauren Mancia, in The Medieval Review
This essay is only for the hale and hearty. For those daring enough to read the whole thing thing, check out the PDF, below, which also has images of the manuscripts where Usquemodo is found.
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