Project team

Project Director and website author

John Harper is research professor in music and liturgy at Bangor University. In liturgical studies he is best known for his book, The Forms and Orders of Western Liturgy: an Historical Introduction for Students and Musicians, which is widely used across a range of disciplines. He has also undertaken substantial work in contemporary music for liturgy, notably the series Music for Common Worship for the new liturgies of the Church of England. He is also Emeritus Director of The Royal School of Church Music.

Editor of the Old Customary Latin Texts

Christopher Hodkinson is completing a doctoral study of the liturgy of the medieval cathedral of Rouen. He is also a director of Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge and of the Latin Schola at the church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge.

Editor of the New Customary Latin Texts

Matthew Cheung Salisbury is lecturer in music at University College, Oxford, and also works for DIAMM (Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music). His research is primarily directed to the secular medieval Office in England, which, among other work he has undertaken and published, was the topic of his doctoral thesis.

Translator

Henry Howard is a freelance editor and translator; he also has care of Johnby Hall in Cumbria. He read Classics at Oxford where he also sang in the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. His doctoral thesis was a study of eighteenth-century illustrated Bibles.

Technical implementation

The website and database were developed by Joseph Harper, and additional work was undertaken by Edward Harper. Both work professionally in the IT worlds of software implementation and databases. The logo is by Tom Pollock of Excellent Creative Design.

During the early stages of the project, Anna Burson and Tamsin Rowe undertook some of the preliminary work, and Leofranc Holford-Strevens served as an advisor.