- 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
Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West
Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West
The Example of Advent
- Chapter:
- (p.15) I Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West
- Source:
- The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages
- Author(s):
Margot E. Fassler
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter demonstrates how liturgical scholars traditionally study the Office, working out of the example of the Advent season and its history. It lays out the common source materials for the study of liturgy in the Latin Middle Ages, and demonstrates how scholars work with various kinds of tools currently available. The creative genius of the 10th and 11th centuries was lavished upon this Office, as each region and religious community refashioned a large body of broadly circulating materials to suit its particular needs and tastes. The process of understanding how this happened is crucial to knowing how religious cultures evolved in the Latin Middle Ages.
Keywords: Office, medieval, Advent, Amalarius of Metz, sermons, early Middle Ages, Western liturgy, sacamentaries, Gospel readings, lectionaries
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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
