Title: Blessing the world
First published: 2008
Description: "In this book, Derek A. Rivard studies liturgical blessing and its role in the religious life of Christians during the central and later Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the blessings of the Franco-Roman liturgical tradition from the tenth to late thirteenth centuries. Through a careful and extensive study of more than ninety such blessings, many of them translated for the first time and accessible to a readership beyond specialists in medieval liturgy, the author argues that medieval blessings were composed as a direct response to the needs, anxieties, beliefs, and fears of the laity, and therefore these texts represent a rich and largely untapped source for the study of lay piety and of ritual in medieval Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Benediction, Liturgics, Middle Ages, 600-1500, Piety, 11.52 medieval Christianity, Vroomheid, Volksfrömmigkeit, Zegeningen, Segen, Frömmigkeit, Liturgie, Holiness, History of doctrines
Time periods: Middle Ages, 600-1500
LC classification: BV197.B5 R58 2008