The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000
By: Jesse D. Billett
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia -- 7; Subsidia (Henry Bradshaw Society) -- 7.
Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9781907497285
Subjects: Anglo-Saxons; Divine office; Church music; Cross-cultural studies; Catholic Church; Liturgy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-417) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The historical development of the divine office in England to c. 1000; title: Towards a "new narrative" of the history of the divine office in Anglo-Saxon England; title: The divine office in the Latin West in the early Middle Ages; title: The divine office in England from the Augustinian mission to the first Viking invasions, 597-c.835; title: The divine office in England from the first Viking age to the abbacy of Dunstan at Glastonbury, c.835-c.940; title: The divine office and the tenth-century English Benedictine reform; title: Part II. Manuscript evidence for English office chant in the tenth century; title: A methodology for the study of Anglo-Saxon chant books for the office; title: Two witnesses to the chant of the secular office in England in the tenth century : Durham, Cathedral Library, A. IV. 19 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41; title: A fragment of a tenth-century English Benedictine "breviary" : London, British Library, Royal 17., C. XVII, fols. 2-3 and 163-6; title: A fragment of a tenth-century English Benedictine chant book : Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. D. 894, fols. 62-3; title: Conclusion : ways of making a Benedictine office.