The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000
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-Bene...
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Suffolk
Boydell & Brewer
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
/ Divine office
/ History 597-1000
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Church Music
Catholic Church Cross-cultural studies
B Catholic Church B Church Music Catholic Church Cross-cultural studies B Divine Office B Catholic Church ; Liturgy B Anglo-Saxons B Church music ; Catholic Church ; Cross-cultural studies B Catholic Church Liturgy |
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| Summary: | 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. Part I. The historical development of the divine office in England to c. 1000 -- 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 -- Part II. Manuscript evidence for English office chant in the tenth century -- 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 : Durham, Cathedral Library, A. IV. 19 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 -- A fragment of a tenth-century English Benedictine "breviary" : London, British Library, Royal 17., C. XVII, fols. 2-3 and 163-6 -- A fragment of a tenth-century English Benedictine chant book : Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. D. 894, fols. 62-3 -- Conclusion : ways of making a Benedictine office |
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| ISBN: | 1782043055 |