Arthur Westwell, PhD
Arthur Westwell graduated in 2017 with a PhD in Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. He is a manuscript scholar, focusing in his past research particularly on early medieval mass books (sacramentaries and missals) and the compilation of liturgical traditions. At IS PAN he will be focusing on the formation and influence of mass books from central medieval Bavaria, including the passage of mass books into Eastern Europe.
Following fellowships in Trier and Toronto, he has undertaken a DFG funded project on the Carolingian Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand (2020-2024) at the University of Regensburg. He has also worked since 2025 on the BSPP project in Regensburg editing late medieval commentaries on the Gospel of John.
MSCA project “Exchange and Creativity in Bavarian Missals, c. 900-1200”
Publications
Arthur Westwell, “Travelling Manuscripts and Liturgical Collaboration between England and the Continent in the Eighth Century: the ‘Sacramentary of Boniface’ and the Gelasian Sacramentary of Groß Sankt Martin in Cologne”, Early Medieval England and its Neighbours 52 (2026), 1-45
Arthur Westwell, The Carolingian Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand: Art, Script and Liturgical Innovation in an Early Medieval Monastery. Berlin 2024, www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501517563/html.
Arthur Westwell, Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity: The Early Medieval Manuscripts of the Ordines Romani, Cambridge 2024
Arthur Westwell, “Prognostication, Malediction, Memory and the Ordering of Time: The Additions in a Liturgical and Computistical Manuscript from Sens Cathedral”, Scrineum 24/2 (2024), 83-117
Arthur Westwell, “Liturgical Standards and Variance in the Carolingian copies of the Gregorian Sacramentary”, in: Standardization in the Middle Ages, eds. Kristin B. Aavitsland and Line Cecile Engh, Berlin 2024, 203-236
Arthur Westwell, Ingrid Rembold and Carine van Rhijn (eds.), Rethinking the Carolingian Reforms, Manchester 2023
Arthur Westwell: “The Carolingian Sacramentary in Kroměříž, Arcidiecézní muzeum inv. RKP 21134, sign O . c V 1”, Scriptorium 76 (2022), 61-89
Arthur Westwell, “Rome on the Danube: Papal Liturgies at St Emmeram in the Carolingian Period. The Saint-Emmeram Gloss on the Fermentum”, in: St. Emmeram: Liturgie und Musik vom Mittelalter bis zur Frühen Neuzeit, eds. Harald Buchinger, David Hiley und Katelijne Schiltz, Regensburg 2022, 39-55
Arthur Westwell, “Vom libellus zum Missale. Tradition wird Buch”. Heiliger Dienst 76 (2022), 174-181
Arthur Westwell, “The Lost Missal of Alcuin and the Carolingian Sacramentaries of Tours”, Early Medieval Europe 30 (2022), 350-383
Arthur Westwell, “Ordering the Church in the Ordines Romani”, in: Categorising the Church: Monastic Communities and Canonical Clergy In The Carolingian World (780-840), eds. Rutger Kramer, Emilie Kurdziel and Graeme Ward, Turnhout 2022, 425-445
Arthur Westwell, “Three Ninth-Century Liturgical Fragments Identified as Pontificals in Heidelberg, Douai and Innsbruck”, Revue Bénédictine 131 (2021), 387-406
Arthur Westwell, “Correction of Liturgical Words, and Words of Liturgical Correctio in the Ordines Romani of Saint Amand”, in: Words in the Middles Ages. Les Mots au Moyen Âge, eds. Vincent Debiais and Victoria Turner, Turnhout 2020, 69-87
Arthur Westwell, “The Content and Construction of Early Pontifical Manuscripts”, Mélanges de l'école française de Rome: Moyen Âge 132 (2020), 233-251
Arthur Westwell, “The Carolingian Construction of Liturgical Authenticity and Authority and the Gelasian Fragments of Cues created in the ‘Umkreis’ of Charlemagne’s Court School”, in: Die Handschriften der Hofschule Karls des Großen – individuelle Gestalt und europäisches Kulturerbe, eds. Claudine Mouline and Michael Embach, Trier 2019, 499-519
Arthur Westwell, “The Ordines Romani and the Carolingian Choreography of a Liturgical Route to Rome”, ’. In: ‘Homo renovatur de die in diem’: Transforming selves and communities in liturgy and religious ritual from Late Ancient Rome to the Middle Ages, eds. Line Cecile Engh, Stefka G. Eriksen and Francis F. Steen, ACTA ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 31 (2019), 63-79
Arthur Westwell, “The Ordines of Vat.lat.7701 and the Liturgical Culture of Carolingian Chieti”, Papers of the British School at Rome 86 (2018), 127-152.
Projects
Kritische Edition mittelalterlicher Kommentare zum Prolog des Johannesevangeliums und ihrer philosophischen Rezeption in der ‘longue durée’, Wissenschaftlicher Editor at Bayerischen Spitzenprofessurenprogramm, Lehrstuhl für Philosophische Grundfragen der Theologie, Prof. Dr. Julie Casteigt, Institut für Katholische Theologie, Universität Regensburg, since 2025
Beyond Canon – Jenseits des Kanons, Junior Research Fellow: Center of Advanced Studies, Universität Regensburg, 2024-2025
Die Sakramentare aus Saint-Amand als Fallstudie in den Prozessen des liturgischen Wandels im 9. Jahrhundert, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Einzelne Stelle supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Lehrstuhl für Liturgiewissenschaft, Universität Regensburg, 2020-2024
The Ninth-Century Sacramentaries of Tours (Paris BnF lat.9430 and Tours Bibliothèque municipal 184) and the Lost Missal of Alcuin, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies (PIMS), University of Toronto, 2019-2020
Digital Editing of Early Latin Pontifical Manuscripts and Rites, 800-1100, Humboldt Fellowship Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften, Universität Trier, 2019
Exploring Digital Techniques for Presenting Liturgical Material, Stipendiat (gefördert von der Forschungsinitiative des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz): Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften, Universität Trier, 2017-2018