Late Medieval Liturgies Enacted

Author : Sally Harper,P S Barnwell,Magnus Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315528038

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Late Medieval Liturgies Enacted by Sally Harper,P S Barnwell,Magnus Williamson Pdf

This book critically explores ways in which our understanding of late medieval liturgy can be enhanced through present-day enactment. It is a direct outcome of a practice-led research project, led by Professor John Harper and undertaken at Bangor University between 2010 and 2013 in partnership with Salisbury Cathedral and St Fagans National History Museum, near Cardiff. The book seeks to address the complex of ritual, devotional, musical, physical and architectural elements that constitute medieval Latin liturgy, whose interaction can be so difficult to recover other than through practice. In contrast with previous studies of reconstructed liturgies, enactment was not the exclusive end-goal of the project; rather it has created a new set of data for interpretation and further enquiry. Though based on a foundation of historical, musicological, textual, architectural and archaeological research, new methods of investigation and interpretation are explored, tested and validated throughout. There is emphasis on practice-led investigation and making; the need for imagination and creativity; and the fact that enactment participants can only be of the present day. Discussion of the processes of preparation, analysis and interpretation of the enactments is complemented by contextual studies, with particular emphasis on the provision of music. A distinctive feature of the work is that it seeks to understand the experiences of different groups within the medieval church - the clergy, their assistants, the singers, and the laity - as they participated in different kinds of rituals in both a large cathedral and a small parish church. Some of the conclusions challenge interpretations of these experiences, which have been current since the Reformation. In addition, some consideration is given to the implications of understanding past liturgy for present-day worship.

Author : Thomas Heffernan,E Ann Matter
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580445030

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The Liturgy of the Medieval Church by Thomas Heffernan,E Ann Matter Pdf

This volume seeks to address the needs of teachers and advanced students who are preparing classes on the Middle Ages or who find themselves confounded in their studies by reference to the various liturgies that were fundamental to the lives of medieval peoples. In a series of essays, scholars of the liturgy examine The Shape of the Liturgical Year, Particular Liturgies, The Physical Setting of the Liturgy, The Liturgy and Books, and Liturgy and the Arts. A concluding essay, which originated in notes left behind by the late C. Clifford Flanigan, seeks to open the field, to examine liturgy within the larger and more inclusive category of ritual. The essays are intended to be introductory but to provide the basic facts and the essential bibliography for further study. They approach particular problems assuming a knowledge of medieval Europe but little expertise in liturgical studies per se.

Author : Helen Gittos,Sarah Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134797677

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Understanding Medieval Liturgy by Helen Gittos,Sarah Hamilton Pdf

This book provides an introduction to current work and new directions in the study of medieval liturgy. It focuses primarily on so-called occasional rituals such as burial, church consecration, exorcism and excommunication rather than on the Mass and Office. Recent research on such rites challenges many established ideas, especially about the extent to which they differed from place to place and over time, and how the surviving evidence should be interpreted. These essays are designed to offer guidance about current thinking, especially for those who are new to the subject, want to know more about it, or wish to conduct research on liturgical topics. Bringing together scholars working in different disciplines (history, literature, architectural history, musicology and theology), time periods (from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries) and intellectual traditions, this collection demonstrates the great potential that liturgical evidence offers for understanding many aspects of the Middle Ages. It includes essays that discuss the practicalities of researching liturgical rituals; show through case studies the problems caused by over-reliance on modern editions; explore the range of sources for particular ceremonies and the sort of questions which can be asked of them; and go beyond the rites themselves to investigate how liturgy was practised and understood in the medieval period.

Author : David Jasper,Jeremy J. Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783277483

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Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England by David Jasper,Jeremy J. Smith Pdf

In 1879, the late medieval poem now known as The Lay Folks' Mass Book - a guide to the Mass -- was edited for the Early English Text Society by Canon Thomas Frederick Simmons. It remains the standard edition of what, to modern tastes, can seem a simple work of conventional Middle English devotion. Yet, as this book shows, the poem had a remarkable afterlife. The authors demonstrate how Simmons' interest in and presentation of the text was related profoundly to contemporary concerns and heated debates about worship in the Church of England, at a time when Anglian clergymen could be imprisoned for their ritual practices. Simmons, educated at Oxford during the height of the Oxford Movement, was recognised by contemporaries as a leading authority on liturgy, a topic that troubled prime ministers as well as archbishops, and the authors bring out the ways in which Simmons himself used his medievalist researches as the basis for what was to be the most important attempt at Prayer Book revision between the Reformation and the twentieth century.

Author : Lizette Larson-Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429514517

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Medieval Liturgy by Lizette Larson-Miller Pdf

Originally published in 1997, Medieval Liturgy is a unique and interesting collection of nine essays that explores medieval liturgy from three distinct perspectives: historical, liturgical, and theological. The book includes contributions from eminent scholars of the time and discusses the development of 9th to 11th century ordines, the meaning of the Mass in the 12th and 13th centuries, medieval preaching, ordination practices, popular penance practices, marriage rites, the role of music in Eucharistic liturgy, and the relationship between liturgical architectural space and theology.

Author : Matthew Cheung Salisbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Divine office
ISBN : 2503548067

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The Secular Liturgical Office in Late Medieval England by Matthew Cheung Salisbury Pdf

Until recently, research on the late medieval English Office liturgy has suggested that all manuscripts of the same liturgical Use, including those of the celebrated and widespread Uses of Sarum and York, are in large part interchangeable and uniform. This study demonstrates, through detailed analyses of the manuscript breviaries and antiphonals of each secular liturgical Use of medieval England, that such books do share a common textual core. But this is in large part restricted to a single genre of text--the responsory. Other features, even within manuscripts of the same Use, are subject to striking and significant variation, influenced by local customs and hagiographical and textual priorities, and also by varying reception to liturgical prescriptions from ecclesiastical authorities. The identification of the characteristic features of each Use and the differentiation of regional patterns have resulted from treating each manuscript as a unique witness, a practice which is not common in liturgical studies, but one which gives the manuscripts greater value as historical sources. The term 'Use', often employed as a descriptor of orthodoxy, may itself imply a greater uniformity than ever existed, for the ways that the 'Use of Sarum', a liturgical pattern originally designed for enactment in a single cathedral, was realised in countless other venues for worship were dependent on the times, places, and contexts in which the rites were celebrated.

Author : Uwe Michael Lang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108962773

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The Roman Mass by Uwe Michael Lang Pdf

This volume offers a new, synthetic overview of the structure and ritual shape of the Roman Mass from its formative period in late antiquity to its post-Tridentine standarisation. Starting with the Last Supper and the origins of the Eucharist, Uwe Michael Lang constructs a narrative that explores the intense religious, social, and cultural transformations that shaped the Roman Mass. Lang unites classical liturgical history with insights from a variety of other disciplines that have drawn attention to the ritual performance and reception of the mass. He also presents liturgical developments within the broader historical and theological contexts that affected the celebration and experience of the sacramental rite that is still at the heart of Catholic Christianity. Aimed at scholars from a broad swathe of subjects, including religious studies, history, art history, literature, and music, Lang's volume serves as a comprehensive history of the Roman Mass over the course of a millenium.

Author : John F. Romano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317104070

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Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome by John F. Romano Pdf

The liturgy, the public worship of the Catholic Church, was a crucial factor in forging the society of early medieval Rome. As the Roman Empire dissolved, a new world emerged as Christian bishops stepped into the power vacuum left by the dismantling of the Empire. Among these potentates, none was more important than the bishop of Rome, the pope. The documents, archaeology, and architecture that issued forth from papal Rome in the seventh and eighth centuries preserve a precious glimpse into novel societal patterns. The underexploited liturgical sources in particular enrich and complicate our historical understanding of this period. They show how liturgy was the ’social glue’ that held together the Christian society of early medieval Rome - and excluded those who did not belong to it. This study places the liturgy center stage, filling a gap in research on early medieval Rome and demonstrating the utility of investigating how the liturgy functioned in medieval Europe. It includes a detailed analysis of the papal Mass, the central act of liturgy and the most obvious example of the close interaction of liturgy, social relations and power. The first extant Mass liturgy, the First Roman Ordo, is also given a new presentation in Latin here with an English translation and commentary. Other grand liturgical events such as penitential processions are also examined, as well as more mundane acts of worship. Far from a pious business with limited influence, the liturgy established an exchange between humans and the divine that oriented Roman society to God and fostered the dominance of the clergy.

Author : Matthew Cheung Salisbury
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580442701

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Medieval Latin Liturgy in English Translation by Matthew Cheung Salisbury Pdf

In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages. The public, organized worship of the Church had a central role in medieval life. Studying its forms and genres allows readers not only to become aware of one of the most important influences on culture and religion, but also to consider these texts, which were widely disseminated and had fundamental effects on daily life.

Author : Jaume Aurell,Jaume Aurell i Cardona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840248

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Medieval Self-Coronations by Jaume Aurell,Jaume Aurell i Cardona Pdf

The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.

Author : Nicholas Orme
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300262612

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Going to Church in Medieval England by Nicholas Orme Pdf

An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme shows how they came into existence, who staffed them, and how their buildings were used. He explains who went to church, who did not attend, how people behaved there, and how they—not merely the clergy—affected how worship was staged. The book provides an accessible account of what happened in the daily and weekly services, and how churches marked the seasons of Christmas, Lent, Easter, and summer. It describes how they celebrated the great events of life: birth, coming of age, and marriage, and gave comfort in sickness and death. A final chapter covers the English Reformation in the sixteenth century and shows how, alongside its changes, much that went on in parish churches remained as before.

Author : Ian Levy,Gary Macy,Kristen Van Ausdall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004221727

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A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages by Ian Levy,Gary Macy,Kristen Van Ausdall Pdf

The Eucharist in the European Middle Ages was a multimedia event. First and foremost it was a drama, a pageant, a liturgy. The setting itself was impressive. Stunning artwork adorned massive buildings. Underlying and supporting the liturgy, the art and the architecture was a carefully constructed theological world of thought and belief. Popular beliefs, spilling over into the magical, celebrated that presence in several tumultuous forms. Church law regulated how far such practice might go as well as who was allowed to perform the liturgy and how and when it might be performed. This volume presents the medieval Eucharist in all its glory combining introductory essays on the liturgy, art, theology, architecture, devotion and theology. Contributors include: Celia Chazelle, Michael Driscoll, Edward Foley, Stephen Edmund Lahey, Lizette Larson-Miller, Ian Christopher Levy, Gerhard Lutz, Gary Macy, Miri Rubin, Elizabeth Saxon, Kristen Van Ausdall and Joseph Wawrykow.

Author : Andrew Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:30812258

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Late Medieval Liturgical Offices by Andrew Hughes Pdf

Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0521438055

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Corpus Christi by Miri Rubin Pdf

A paperback edition of Miri Rubin's highly successful study of the meaning of the eucharist, c. 1150-1500.

Author : Matthew Cheung Salisbury
Publisher : Past Imperfect
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1641891157

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Worship in Medieval England by Matthew Cheung Salisbury Pdf

The study of medieval liturgy can tell us a great deal not only about the worship of the church, but also about the people who practised it. However, existing scholarship can be problematic and difficult to use. This short book aims to unsettle the notion that liturgiology is a mysterious, abstruse, and monolithic discipline. It challenges some scholarly orthodoxies, hints at the complexity of the liturgy and shows that it needs to be examined in new and different ways.