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Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages : Methodology and Source Studies, Regional Developments, Hagiography

The Divine Office, or the cycle of daily worship services other than the Mass, constitutes a body of liturgical texts and music for medieval studies. This is a collection of spiritual works that is central to the culture of the Middle Ages
eBook, English, 2000
Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Cary, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (657 pages)
9780195352382, 0195352386
922952745
""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Musical Examples""; ""Contributors""; ""Prelude: Charting the Divine Office""; ""I: A METHODOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West: The Example of Advent""; ""2 Reading an Office Book""; ""II: THE PRE-CAROLINGIAN OFFICE""; ""3 The Origins of the Western Office""; ""4 Observations on the Divine Office in the Rule of the Master""; ""5 Eastern and Western Elements in the Irish Monastic Prayer of the Hours""; ""III: MANUSCRIPT STUDIES"" ""6 The Antiphoner of Compi�gne: Paris, BNF lat. 17436""""7 The Divine Office at Saint-Martial in the Early Eleventh Century: Paris, BNF lat. 1085""; ""8 The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes: Biblioth�que de l'Abbaye, Réserve 28""; ""9 Taking the Rough with the Smooth: Melodic Versions and Manuscript Status""; ""IV: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS: THE CAROLINGIAN PERIOD TO THE LATER MIDDLE AGES""; ""10 Office Compositions from St. Gall: Saints Gallus and Otmar""; ""11 The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale: The Evidence of the Antiphon Texts"" ""12 Performing Latin Verse: Text and Music in Early Medieval Versified Offices""""13 From Office to Mass: The Antiphons of Vespers and Lauds and the Antiphons before the Gospel in Northern France""; ""14 The Office for the Feast of the Circumcision from Le Puy""; ""15 The Palm Sunday Procession in Medieval Chartres""; ""16 Nonconformity in the Use of Cambrai Cathedral: Guillaume Du Fay's Foundations""; ""V: HAGIOGRAPHY""; ""17 Transforming a Viking into a Saint: The Divine Office of St. Olav""; ""18 On the Prose Historia of St. Augustine"" ""19 The Historia of St. Julian of Le Mans by Létald of Micy: Some Comments and Questions about a North French Office of the Early Eleventh Century""""20 The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris""; ""21 The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin: A Study in Musical Adaptation""; ""VI: THE OFFICE AND COMPUTERS""; ""22 Large Projects and Small Resources: Late Medieval Liturgical Offices""; ""23 CANTUS and Tonaries""; ""Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner""; ""Bibliography""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Primary Sources, Indexes, and Multivolume Reference Works"" ""Secondary Sources""""Index of Manuscripts""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""; ""Index of Incipits""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""Index of Saints""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""General Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""
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