Susan Boynton is Assistant Professor of Historical Musicology at Columbia University.
"Boynton's book is original, interesting, meticulously researched, and cogently argued... She shows, elegantly, in detail, how ... local adaptations of the majestic monastic liturgy can reveal a great deal about how monasteries viewed themselves and promoted their interests... A traditional historian could have done much of Boynton has accomplished. But only an expert musicologist like Boynton could have identified and interpreted some of the critical subtleties in the liturgy."-Thomas F. X. Noble, Church History, March 2007 "Susan Boynton's book is an interdisciplinary tour de force, combining a masterful command of the liturgical material with close attention to the manuscripts. Taking into account the most recent methodological trends in history and without neglecting the political, institutional, and artistic aspects of Farfa's past, Boynton restores the liturgy to its central place in the monastic life."-Isabelle Cochelin, University of Toronto "At a time when many churches are trying hard to recover the connection between liturgy and community, this book offers a compelling account of how an important medieval monastery used worship and hymnody to negotiate its own shifting identity over many centuries of political change and power struggle. I couldn't put it down."-Peter Jeffery, Scheide Professor of Music History, Princeton University, Benedictine Oblate of St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota "Shaping a Monastic Identity, which straddles the traditional genres of liturgical study and monastic history, is innovative, accurate, and well written. Susan Boynton valiantly brings liturgy out of the 'background.' In viewing the history of a particular monastic house through its liturgy, Boynton's book is unique."-Marios Costambeys, University of Liverpool
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