Jesse D. Billett

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Æthelwold 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 485
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782043058
• Artikelnr.: 56163321

Autorenporträt

Jesse D. Billett

Inhaltsangabe

Towards a 'New Narrative' of the History of the Divine Office in
Anglo-Saxon England The Divine Office in the Latin West in the Early Middle
Ages The Divine Office in England from the Augustinian Mission to the First
Viking Invasions, 597 - c.835 The Divine Office in England from the first
Viking age to the abbacy of Dunstan at Glastonbury, c.835 - c.940 The
Divine Office and the Tenth-Century English Benedictine Reform A
Methodology for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Chant Books for the Office Two
Witnesses to the Chant of the Secular Office in England in the Tenth
Century A Fragment of a Tenth-Century English Benedictine 'Breviary' A
Fragment of a Tenth-Century English Benedictine Chant Book Conclusion: Ways
of Making a Benedictine Office Appendices Bibliography Index of Manuscripts
Index of Liturgical Forms