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

Rebecca A. Baltzer and Margot E. Fassler

Abstract

The Divine Office, or the cycle of daily worship services other than the Mass, constitutes the most important body of liturgical texts and music for medieval studies. It is a collection of spiritual works that is central to the culture of the Middle Ages. This book addresses the Office from a variety of points of view.

Keywords: daily worship, services, liturgical text, music, medieval studies, spiritual

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2000 Print ISBN-13: 9780195124538
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195124538.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Rebecca A. Baltzer, Editor
University of Texas

Margot E. Fassler, Editor
Yale University

Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

List of Musical Examples

Contributors

THE DIVINE OFFICE IN THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES

Prelude

I A METHODOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION

I Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West

2 Reading an Office Book

II THE PRE‐CAROLINGIAN OFFICE

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

III MANUSCRIPT STUDIES

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

IV REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

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

V HAGIOGRAPHY

17 Transforming a Viking into a Saint

18 On the Prose Historia of St. Augustine

19 The Historia 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

VI THE OFFICE AND COMPUTERS

22 Large Projects and Small Resources

23 CANTUS and Tonaries

End Matter

Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner

Bibliography

Index of Manuscripts

Index of Incipits

Index of Saints

General Index