The Bobbio Missal - Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul (Hardcover, New)

The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The Missal is therefore highly regarded by liturgists; but, additionally, medieval historians welcome the information to be derived from material attached to the codex, which provides valuable data about the role and education of priests in Francia at that time, and indeed on their cultural and ideological background. The breadth of specialist knowledge provided by the team of scholars writing for this book enables the manuscript to be viewed as a whole, not as a narrow liturgical study. Collectively, the essays view the manuscript as physical object: they discuss the contents, they examine the language, and they look at the cultural context in which the codex was written.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
Release date:	March 2004
First published:	2004
Editors:	Yitzhak Hen (Anna and Sam Lopin Professor of History) • Rob Meens
Dimensions:	242 x 185 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	246
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-82393-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Palaeography Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Acquisitions & collection development Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Promotions
LSN:	0-521-82393-5
Barcode:	9780521823937

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