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Understanding Medieval Liturgy - Essays in Interpretation (Paperback)
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Understanding Medieval Liturgy - Essays in Interpretation (Paperback)
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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.
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