Research

Here are a small selection of scholarly articles in English. For more material in Swedish, also podcasts etc., see Swedish version (Forskning) of the website. A complete though not fully up to date list of publications is found here: https://lnu.se/en/staff/karin.lagergren/.

• Here you find Karin’s book on 800 years of Birgittine chant and liturgy : Birgittine Chantscapes. Chant and Liturgy in the Order of St Birgitta of Sweden 14th-21st Century (Uppsala University Press 2025)  The publication is open access (click the titel) but via the link a copy of the book can be purchased. At the bottom of this page you find recordings of the music examples in the book.

• In this short film, Karin Lagergren presents how she combines research with performance in the narrative concert, Gaude Birgitta:

https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/aktuellt/nyheter/2019/karin-ger-konserter-i-klostermusik-for-att-na-fler-med-sin-forskning/

• A Reformed Cantus Sororum in Maria refugie around 1800

Models in virtual reality of Vadstena Abbey Church as it might have looked and sounded in ca. 1470. These models are a result of the interdisciplinary research project ’The Multisensory World of Vadstena Abbey in the Late Middle Ages’ that was conducted during 2017-2022.  The models are published on Sketchfab and can be seen via this link.