ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the physical aspects of liturgical enactment. The study of late medieval liturgy received considerable attention in the second half of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth century. Enacting late medieval liturgy in late medieval buildings brings to the fore the ways in which liturgy and space operated. The enactments at St Teilo's took that creative archaeological process a stage further by animating the building through its dynamic relationship with the texts, chants, artefacts, vestments and ritual of late medieval liturgy enabled and facilitated in the present by modern people. The distinctive sonic dimensions of medieval liturgy are only made fully apparent in enactment. Musicologists have often led the way in producing complete performances of liturgies. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
