Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England - Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book

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 Anglican 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.

General

Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Medievalism
Release date:	October 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	David Jasper • Jeremy J. Smith
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-78327-748-3
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-78327-748-3
Barcode:	9781783277483

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