The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages : methodology and source studies, regional developments, hagiography : written in honor of Professor Ruth Steiner

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The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages : methodology and source studies, regional developments, hagiography : written in honor of Professor Ruth Steiner

edited by Margot E. Fassler and Rebecca A. Baltzer

Oxford University Press, 2000

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"Bibliography of writings by Ruth Steiner": p. 561-565

Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-607) and indexes

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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 volume addresses the Office from a variety of points of view, allowing the reader to grasp the current state of research and to make connections.

Table of Contents

Lila Collamore: Prelude: Charting the Divine Office Part I. A Methodological Introduction 1: Margot E. Fassler: Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West: The Example of Advent 2: Laszlo Dobszay: Reading an Office Book Part II. The Pre-Carolingian Office 3: James W. McKinnon: The Origins of the Western Office 4: Joseph Dyer: Observations on the Divine Office in the Rule of the Master 5: Peter Jeffery: Eastern and Western Elements in the Irish Monastic Prayer of the Hours Part III. Manuscript Studies 6: Ritva Jacobsson: The Antiphoner of Compiegne, Paris, BNF lat. 17436 7: James Grier: The Divine Office at St. Martial in the Early Eleventh Century: Paris, BN lat. 1085 8: Michael Huglo: The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes, Bibliotheque de l'Abbaye 9: Susan Rankin: Taking the Rough with the Smooth: Melodic Versions and Manuscript Status Part IV. Regional Developments: Carolingian Period to the Later Middle Ages 10: Hartmut Moeller: Office Compositions from St. Gall: Saints Gallus and Othmar 11: Terence Bailey: The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale: The Evidence of the Antiphon Texts 12: Gunilla Bjoerkvall and Andreas Haug: Performing Latin Verse: Text and Music in Early Medieval Versified Offices 13: Anne Walters Robertson: From Office to Mass: The Antiphons of Vespers and Lauds and the Antiphons before the Gospel in Northern France 14: Wulf Arlt: The Office for the Feast of the Circumcision from Le Puy 15: Craig Wright: The Palm Sunday Processional in Medieval Chartres 16: Barbara Haggh: Nonconformity in the Use of Cambrai Cathedral: Guillaume Du Fay's Foundations Part V. Hagiography 17: Gunilla Iversen: Transforming a Viking into a Saint: The Divine Office of St. Olav 18: Janka Szendrei: On the Prose Historia of St. Augustine 19: David Hiley: The Historia of St. Julian of Le Mans by Letald of Micy: Some Comments and Questions about a North French Office of the Early Eleventh Century 20: Rebecca A. Baltzer: The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris 21: James John Boyce: The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin: A Study in Musical Adaptation Part VI. The Office and Computers 22: Andrew Hughes: Large Projects and Small Resources: Late Medieval Liturgical Offices 23: Lora Matthews & Paul Merkley: CANTUS and Tonaries Lila Collamore: Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner

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