Liturgy and the Arts in the Middle Ages: Studies in Honour of C. Clifford FlaniganEva Louise Lillie, Nils Holger Petersen Museum Tusculanum Press, 1996 - 249 pages This volume contains a collection of essays in honour of the late Professor of Comparative Literature, C Clifford Flanigan, who died suddenly in 1993 at the age of 52. The scholarship of this book constitutes an example of the interdisciplinary approach to the study of ecclesiastical history which is the aim of the newly established Centre for Christianity and the Arts at the Theological Faculty at the University of Copenhagen. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Dynamic Qualities in the Medieval Office | 36 |
The Meaning and the Function of the Introit | 64 |
Length and Festivity On some prolongation techniques | 75 |
Stational Liturgy and Processional Antiphons in | 85 |
Supera agalmata Angels and the celestial hierarchy | 95 |
Beata Maria semper virgo in Piacenza Biblioteca | 134 |
Liturgy as a Theological Place Possibilities and limitations | 168 |
Liturgical representation and Late Medieval Piety | 181 |
O vos omnes qui transitis per viam The quotation | 205 |
On the Connection between Medieval Wooden Sculpture | 221 |
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