The liturgy which developed at Rome during the early centuries of the Christian era was to establish the pattern for religious observance in the Latin West from the sixth century to the twentieth. Yet, for a variety of reasons, the origins and early development of this liturgy are far from clear. Evidence must be teased out of the various incidental references to be found in the writings of the early Church Fathers; Hippolytus, Cyprian, Ambrose, Augustine and ultimately Gregory the Great. In this book the late G.G. Willis draws on a lifetime's intimate knowledge of the liturgical evidence for...
The liturgy which developed at Rome during the early centuries of the Christian era was to establish the pattern for religious observance in the Latin...
An examination of the papal adventus ceremony, deriving from the ritual reception performed for the ruler in antiquity, and the changes it underwent during the century.
An examination of the papal adventus ceremony, deriving from the ritual reception performed for the ruler in antiquity, and the changes it underwent d...
At the heart of life in any medieval Christian religious community was the communal recitation of the daily -hours of prayer- or Divine Office. This book draws on narrative, conciliar, and manuscript sources to reconstruct the history of how the Divine Office was sung in Anglo-Saxon minster churches from the coming of the first Roman missionaries in 597 to the height of the -monastic revival- in the tenth century. Going beyond both the hagiographic -Benedictine- assumptions of older scholarship and the cautious agnosticism of more recent historians of Anglo-Saxon Christianity, the author...
At the heart of life in any medieval Christian religious community was the communal recitation of the daily -hours of prayer- or Divine Office. This b...
