Singers in the Making of Europe - Professor Christopher Page

By the twelfth century the West could be imagined as a soundscape of Latin plainsong and be given a name: Latinitas. The Gregorian chants for the Mass figured prominently in this body of shared material, and were spread by many different methods of colonisation and conquest. This was both internally by the foundation of new houses in abandoned or waste areas and externally by crusade in Spain, eastern Europe and Livonia. The si