- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Prelude
- I Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West
- 2 Reading an Office Book
- 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
- 6 The Antiphoner of Compiègne
- 7 The Divine Office at Saint‐Martial in the Early Eleventh Century
- 8 The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes
- 9 Taking the Rough with the Smooth
- 10 Office Compositions from St. Gall
- 11 The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale
- 12 Performing Latin Verse
- 13 From Office to Mass
- 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
- 17 Transforming a Viking into a Saint
- 18 On the Prose <i>Historia</i> of St. Augustine
- 19 The <i>Historia</i> of St. Julian of Le Mans by Létald of Micy
- 20 The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris
- 21 The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin
- 22 Large Projects and Small Resources
- 23 CANTUS and Tonaries
- Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Incipits
- Index of Saints
- General Index
The Palm Sunday Procession in Medieval Chartres
The Palm Sunday Procession in Medieval Chartres
- Chapter:
- (p.344) 15 The Palm Sunday Procession in Medieval Chartres
- Source:
- The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages
- Author(s):
Craig Wright
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter presents a short history of the Palm Sunday procession in the Western Church followed by a more detailed study of that ritual as it unfolded in medieval Chartres, especially using ordinals from the diocese. The procession at the cathedral of Chartres is reconstructed, the chants enumerated, and the processional route traced through the streets and into the secondary churches of that city. Finally, to determine what was unique about Palm Sunday in Chartres, the ceremony there is compared to similar practices at other cathedrals in northern France, specifically those at Amiens, Bayeux, Laon, Metz, Paris, Reims, Rouen, Sens, and Soissons. Not until the French Revolution did this colorful Chartres tradition come to an end.
Keywords: France, ordinals, diocese, Palm Sunday procession, Easter music, ceremonies, religious institutions, Middle Ages, processions
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Prelude
- I Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West
- 2 Reading an Office Book
- 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
- 6 The Antiphoner of Compiègne
- 7 The Divine Office at Saint‐Martial in the Early Eleventh Century
- 8 The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes
- 9 Taking the Rough with the Smooth
- 10 Office Compositions from St. Gall
- 11 The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale
- 12 Performing Latin Verse
- 13 From Office to Mass
- 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
- 17 Transforming a Viking into a Saint
- 18 On the Prose <i>Historia</i> of St. Augustine
- 19 The <i>Historia</i> of St. Julian of Le Mans by Létald of Micy
- 20 The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris
- 21 The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin
- 22 Large Projects and Small Resources
- 23 CANTUS and Tonaries
- Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Incipits
- Index of Saints
- General Index
