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The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000 (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,200
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The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000 (Paperback): Jesse D. Billett

The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000 (Paperback)

Jesse D. Billett

Series: Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia

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First full-scale survey and examination of liturgical practice and its fundamental changes over four centuries. At the heart of life in any medieval Christian religious community was the communal recitation of the daily "hours of prayer" or Divine Office. This book draws on narrative, conciliar, and manuscript sources to reconstruct the history of how the Divine Office was sung in Anglo-Saxon minster churches from the coming of the first Roman missionaries in 597 to the height of the "monastic revival" in the tenth century. Going beyond both the hagiographic "Benedictine" assumptions of older scholarship and the cautious agnosticism of more recent historians of Anglo-Saxon Christianity, the author demonstrates that the early Anglo-Saxon Church followed a non-Benedictine "Roman" monasticliturgical tradition. Despite Viking depredations and native laxity, this tradition survived, enriched through contact with varied Continental liturgies, into the tenth century. Only then did a few advanced monastic reformers conclude, based on their study of ninth-century Frankish reforms fully explained for the first time in this book, that English monks and nuns ought to follow the liturgical prescriptions of the Rule of St Benedict to the letter. Fragmentary manuscript survivals reveal how monastic leaders such as Dunstan and AEthelwold variously adapted the native English liturgical tradition - or replaced it - to implement this forgotten central plank of the "Benedictine Reform". JESSE D. BILLETT is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, Toronto.

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Imprint: Henry Bradshaw Society
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia
Release date: February 2019
First published: 2019
Authors: Jesse D. Billett (Customer)
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 978-1-907497-35-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
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LSN: 1-907497-35-8
Barcode: 9781907497353

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