Homo religiosus of the late middle ages. The Bernardine’s model of popular religion Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Wydział Historyczny, Praca doktorska, Poznań (2004) Szulc, Alicja (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza) Abstract Presented work was guided by the question: if Franciscan Observants in the late medieval period propagated a new model of popular religion, and if it was so, up to […]
Homo religiosus of the late middle ages. The Bernardine’s model of popular religion
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Liturgy and the Illustration of Gregory of Nazianzen’s Homilies. An Essay in Iconographical Methodology
January 4, 2011 By
Liturgy and the Illustration of Gregory of Nazianzen’s Homilies. An Essay in Iconographical Methodology By Christopher Walters Revue des études byzantines, Vol.31 (1973) Abstract: The method of studying the transmission of manuscript illuminations, as presented by K. Weitzmann in Illustrations in Roll and Codex, is considered with regard to Byzantine manuscripts. There follows a critique […]
The Liturgy of the Liberation Jerusalem
February 20, 2010 By
The Liturgy of the Liberation Jerusalem By Bernard Sabella Verso Gerusalemme (Atti del II Convegno internazionale nel IX Centenario della I Crociata [1099-1999] (Bari, 1999) Introduction: Jerusalem fell on Friday, July 15, 1099, about midday. The victorious crusaders turned immediately to the Temple Mount, massacred there the soldiers and the civilians who tries – in […]
The Sweet Song of Satan: Music and Resistance in the Vercelli Book
December 26, 2009 By
The Sweet Song of Satan: Music and Resistance in the Vercelli Book Heckman, Christina M. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 15 (1998) Abstract In the poetry and prose homilies of the Vercelli Book, a collection of Anglo-Saxon texts dating from the second half of the tenth century, music exercises a constitutive as well as metaphorical […]
Harrowing Hell’s Halfacre: Langland’s Mediation of the “Descensus” from the Gospel of Nicodemus
December 21, 2009 By
Harrowing Hell’s Halfacre: Langland’s Mediation of the “Descensus” from the Gospel of Nicodemus Taylor, Sean Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 10 (1993) Abstract Ever since Morton Bloomfield’s famous characterization of Piers Plowman as “a commentary on an unknown text,” the phrase has been echoed repeatedly (often facetiously, sometimes not) by scholars attempting to define the […]
Source Readings on the Practice and Spirituality of Chant: New Texts, New Approaches
December 19, 2009 By
Source Readings on the Practice and Spirituality of Chant: New Texts, New Approaches Lochner, Fabian C. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 8 (1991) Abstract Research on performance practice is one of the thriving fields in contemporary musicology. There is indeed a growing demand for information on the performance of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music by […]
King David in Germany: Royal Traditions at Prüm
December 19, 2009 By
King David in Germany:Royal Traditions at Prüm Marquardt-Cherry, Janet T. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 9 (1992) Abstract Unlike Psalters, Tropers were not commonly furnished with images of King David. This was because the Tropers’ idiosyncratic texts drew from widely varied sources and could claim no such illustrious author. One manuscript, however, Paris B.N. fonds […]
The Riddle of the Runes: the Runic Passage in Cynewulf’s Fates of the Apostles
December 19, 2009 By
The Riddle of the Runes: the Runic Passage in Cynewulf’s Fates of the Apostles Gleason, Raymond E. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 9 (1992) Abstract In his article on Anglo-Saxon runes, John Kemble suggests that the word “rune” is related etymologically to the Old English word rynan, “to whisper” (328). This essay will examine the […]
Ascension Sundays in Tropers: The Innovative Scenes in the Prüm and Canterbury Tropers and Their Relationship to the Accompanying Texts
December 19, 2009 By
Ascension Sundays in Tropers: The Innovative Scenes in the Prüm and Canterbury Tropers and Their Relationship to the Accompanying Texts Marquardt-Cherry, Janet Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 6 (1989) Abstract Tropes are additional lines of text and music interpolated within liturgical prayers. Tropers are manuscripts containing tropes and other variable material such as Sequence hymns. […]
Techne in the Kentish Hymn
December 18, 2009 By
Techne in the Kentish Hymn Keefer, Sarah Larratt Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 6 (1989) Abstract Little interest to date has been paid to a special branch of Old English religious verse, which stems from the liturgy as it was used in the tenth century. These are poems which re-create into the vernacular the psalms, […]
Franciscan Chant as a Late Medieval Expression in the Liturgy
December 16, 2009 By
Franciscan Chant as a Late Medieval Expression in the Liturgy Wagner, Lavern John Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 5 (1988) Abstract When St. Francis turned his back on earthly vanities and established the Franciscan order in the first part of the 13th century, his biographers tell us he did not cease his interest in music. […]
The chalice and the cup : the changing role of wine in the High Middle Ages
May 23, 2009 By
In an interdisciplinary approach, this study integrates the historiographies of viticulture as well as of the Christian liturgy to answer the question: why did wine disappear from the Eucharist in the high Middle Ages?
Sunday matins in the Byzantine cathedral rite : music and liturgy
May 23, 2009 By
Sunday matins in the Byzantine cathedral rite : music and liturgy By Alexander Leonidas Lingas PhD Dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1996 Abstract: This is an interdisciplinary examination of the office of Sunday Matins as celebrated in the Byzantine cathedral Rite of the Great Church from its origins in the popular psalmodic assemblies of the fourth century […]
From Viking to Saint: How the Liturgy of St. Olav Created the Patron Saint and Eternal King of Norway
May 11, 2009 By
From Viking to Saint: How the Liturgy of St. Olav Created the Patron Saint and Eternal King of Norway By Andrew Casad Published Online (2002) Introduction: In the year 793 the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records: “on the sixth day before the ides of January in the same year, the harrowing inroads of heathen men made lamentable […]
Expositiones sequentiarum: Medieval Sequence Commentaries and Prologues. Editions with Introductions
September 25, 2008 By
The sequence commentary, part of the vast commentary literature of the Middle Ages, emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a new field for writing expositions on liturgical poetry. It is, however, a genre that has been practically neglected by modern research.
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