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Liturgy of the Late Anglo-Saxon Church

Liturgy of the Late Anglo-Saxon Church

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Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society
ISBN: 9781870252218
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 30/06/2005
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
New research into the liturgy of Anglo-Saxon history, with important implications for church history in general. The essays in this volume offer the fruits of new research into the liturgical rituals of later Anglo-Saxon England. They include studies of individual rites, the production, adaptation and transmission of texts, vernacular gospeltranslations, liturgical drama and the influence of the liturgy on medical remedies, poetry and architecture; also covered are the tenth-century Benedictine Reforms and the growth of pastoral care. It will be valuable for anyoneinterested in later Anglo-Saxon England as well as medieval liturgy and church history.
Introduction - Helen Gittos The Roman Psalter, its Old English Glosses and the English Benedictine Reform - Mechthild Gretsch Making the Liturgy - Susan K Rankin Rending the Garment and Reading by the Rood: Regularis concordia Rituals for Men and Women - Joyce Hill Rites for Public Penance in Late Anglo-Saxon England - Sarah Hamilton The Chrism Mass in Later Anglo-Saxon England - Christopher A Jones The Veneration of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England - Sarah Larratt Keefer The Rites and Ministries of the Canons: Liturgical Rubrics to Vernacular Gospels and their Functions in a European Context - Ursula Lenker Cross-Referencing Anglo-Saxon Liturgy and Remedies: the Sign of the Cross as Ritual Protection - Karen Jolly The Sign of the Cross: Poetic Performance and Liturgical Practice in the Junius 11 Manuscript - Catherine E. Karkov How much can Anglo-Saxon Buildings Tell us about Liturgy? - Ritual and Drama in Anglo-Saxon England: the Dangers of the Diachronic Perspective - M. Bradford Bedingfield

Helen Gittos, M. Bradford Bedingfield (Author), Catherine E Karkov

CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds. Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Manoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction.

A rich and timely collection which offers many important new analyses of liturgical texts and their relationship to practice and theology. * THE YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES * A valuable addition to our knowledge of liturgical manuscripts and practices. * TOEBI NEWSLETTER * Part of the value of a study of this kind is the different disciplinary approaches taken by the various authors.their learning deepens our understanding of Anglo-Saxon liturgy and the history it embodies. * REVUE D'HISTOIRE ECCLESIASTIQUE *

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