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

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ISBN-10: 0195124537

ISBN-13: 9780195124538

Edition: 2000

Authors: Margot E. Fassler, Rebecca A. Baltzer

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The Divine Office--the cycle of daily worship other than the Mass--is the richest source of liturgical texts and music from the Latin Middle Ages. However, its richness, the great diversity of its manuscripts, and its many variations from community to community have made it difficult to study, and it remains largely unexplored terrain. This volume is a practical guide to the Divine Office for students and scholars throughout the field of medieval studies. The book surveys the many questions related to the Office and presents the leading analytical tools and research methods now used in the field. Beginning with the Office in the early Middle Ages, the book covers manuscript sources and…    
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List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 656
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.2

Margot Fassler is Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame. Her works include The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts, Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris, and a series of films on sacred music. Fassler is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Musicological Society's Otto Kinkeldey Prize.

Prelude: Charting the Divine Office, Lila Collamore
A Methodological Introduction
Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West: The Example of Advent, Margot E. Fassler
Reading an Office Book
The Pre-Carolingian Office
The Origins of the Western Office
Observations on the Divine Office in the Rule of the Master
Eastern and Western Elements in the Irish Monastic Prayer of the Hours
Manuscript Studies
The Antiphoner of Compiegne, Paris, BNF lat. 17436
The Divine Office at St. Martial in the Early Eleventh Century: Paris, BN lat. 1085
The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes
Taking the Rough with the Smooth: Melodic Versions and Manuscript Status
Regional Developments: Carolingian Period to the Later Middle Ages
Office Compositions from St. Gall: Saints Gallus and Othmar
The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale: The Evidence of the Antiphon Texts
Performing Latin Verse: Text and Music in Early Medieval Versified Offices
From Office to Mass: The Antiphons of Vespers and Lauds and the Antiphons before the Gospel in Northern France
The Office for the Feast of the Circumcision from Le Puy
The Palm Sunday Processional in Medieval Chartres
Nonconformity in the Use of Cambrai Cathedral: Guillaume Du Fay's Foundations
Hagiography
Transforming a Viking into a Saint: The Divine Office of St. Olav
On the Prose Historia of St. Augustine
The Historia of St. Julian of Le Mans by Letald of Micy: Some Comments and Questions about a North French Office of the Early Eleventh Century
The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris
The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin: A Study in Musical Adaptation
The Office and Computers
Large Projects and Small Resources: Late Medieval Liturgical Offices
Cantus and Tonaries
Bibliography of Writings