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

The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000
Author: Jesse D. Billett
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1907497285

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When did Anglo-Saxon monks begin to recite the daily hours of prayer, the Divine Office, according to the liturgical pattern prescribed in the Rule of St Benedict? Going beyond the simplistic assumptions of previous scholarship, this book reveals that the early Anglo-Saxon Church followed a non-Benedictine Office tradition inherited from the Roman missionaries; the Benedictine Office arrived only when tenth-century monastic reformers such as Dunstan and Æthelwold decided that "true" monks should not use the same Office liturgy as secular clerics, a decision influenced by eighth- and ninth-century Frankish reforms. The author explains, for the first time, how this reduced liturgical diversity in the Western Church to a basic choice between "secular" and "monastic" forms of the Divine Office; he also uses previously unedited manuscript fragments to illustrate the differing attitudes and Continental connections of the English Benedictine reformer, and to show that survivals of the early Anglo-Saxon liturgy may be identifiable in later medieval sources.


Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Gerald P. Dyson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783273666

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Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church.


The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture

The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture
Author: Ann W. Astell
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2024-07-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 026820814X

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Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies. Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, illuminating the gospel through the overlapping forms of exempla and vita. Originally, the Lives of the saints were understood as hermeneutical extensions of the Bible—God authors the saint, just as God authors the divinely inspired scriptures. During the medieval period, a sense of dual authorship between God and the cooperating saint developed, paralleling the Scholastic impulse to assign greater agency to the human writers of scripture. Then, in the sixteenth century, powerful new anxieties about historical truth pushed hagiography aside for biography, its successor. Drawing on her expertise in the history of Christianity and biblical exegesis, Astell convincingly shows how this radical shift in hagiography’s status—the loss of the literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical senses of the Lives—serves as a bellwether for modern biblical reception.


Late Anglo-Saxon Prayer in Practice

Late Anglo-Saxon Prayer in Practice
Author: Kate H. Thomas
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2020-01-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110661950

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This monograph examines Anglo-Saxon prayer outside of the communal liturgy. With a particular emphasis on its practical aspects, it considers how small groups of prayers were elaborated into complex programs for personal devotion, resulting in the forerunners of the Special Offices. With examples being taken chiefly from major eleventh-century collections of prayers, liturgy and medical remedies, the methodologies of Anglo-Saxon compilers are examined, followed by five chapters on specialist kinds of prayer: to the Trinity and saints, for liturgical feasts and the canonical hours, to the Holy Cross, for protection and healing, and confessions. Analyzing prayer in a wide range of different situations, this book argues that Anglo-Saxon manuscripts may have included far more private offices than have so far been recognized, if we see them for what they were.


The Psalms and Medieval English Literature

The Psalms and Medieval English Literature
Author: Tamara Atkin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2017
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1843844354

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An examination of how The Book of Psalms shaped medieval thought and helped develop the medieval English literary canon. The Book of Psalms had a profound impact on English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period. This collection examines the various ways in which they shaped medieval English thought and contributed to the emergence of an English literary canon. It brings into dialogue experts on both Old and Middle English literature, thus breaking down the traditional disciplinary binaries of both pre- and post-Conquest English and late medieval and Early Modern, as well as emphasizing the complex and fascinating relationship between Latin and the vernacular languages of England. Its three main themes, translation, adaptation and voice, enable a rich variety of perspectives on the Psalms and medieval English literature to emerge. TAMARA ATKIN is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature at Queen Mary University of London; FRANCIS LENEGHAN is Associate Professor of OldEnglish at The University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford Contributors: Daniel Anlezark, Mark Faulkner, Vincent Gillespie, Michael P. Kuczynski, David Lawton, Francis Leneghan, Jane Roberts, Mike Rodman Jones, Elizabeth Solopova, Lynn Staley, Annie Sutherland, Jane Toswell, Katherine Zieman.


Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts

Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts
Author: Ursula Lenker
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110629844

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In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. very short pieces of writing constituting independent, self-contained texts. For the first time, these micro-texts are here studied in their forms and communicative functions, their pragmatics and performativity.


Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Brandon Hawk
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1487516983

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Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives in Old English sermons. The work contributes to our understanding of both the prevalence and importance of apocrypha in vernacular preaching, by assessing various preaching texts from Continental and Anglo-Saxon Latin homiliaries, as well as vernacular collections like the Vercelli Book, the Blickling Book, Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, and other manuscripts from the tenth through twelfth centuries. Vernacular sermons were part of a media ecology that included Old English poetry, legal documents, liturgical materials, and visual arts. Situating Old English preaching within this network establishes the range of contexts, purposes, and uses of apocrypha for diverse groups in Anglo-Saxon society: cloistered religious, secular clergy, and laity, including both men and women. Apocryphal narratives did not merely survive on the margins of culture, but thrived at the heart of mainstream Anglo-Saxon Christianity.


Rome Across Time and Space

Rome Across Time and Space
Author: Claudia Bolgia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2011-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 052119217X

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An exploration of the significance of medieval Rome, both as a physical city and an idea with immense cultural capital.


Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England

Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Helen Gittos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0199270902

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One of the first studies to consider how church rituals were performed in Anglo-Saxon England. Brings together evidence from written, archaeological, and architectural sources. It will be of particular interest to architectural specialists keen to know more about liturgy, and church historians who would like to learn more about architecture.