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The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-C.1000

[Hardback]

by Jesse D. Billett (customer)

    • Author

      Jesse D. Billett (customer)

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Henry Bradshaw Society

    • Published

      September 2014

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      The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-C.1000

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      Product Description

      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 Athelwold 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.

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      • Author

        Jesse D. Billett (customer)

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Henry Bradshaw Society

      • Published

        September 2014

      • Weight

        795g

      • Page Count

        485

      • Dimensions

        145 x 216 x 39 mm

      • ISBN

        9781907497285

      • ISBN-10

        1907497285

      • Eden Code

        4276848

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      • Author/Creator: Jesse D. Billett (customer)

      • ISBN: 9781907497285

      • Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society

      • Release Date: September 2014

      • Weight: 795g

      • Dimensions: 145 x 216 x 39 mm

      • Eden Code: 4276848

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