The Dramatic Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England

ISBN: 9780851158730 (0851158730)
Edition Type: Hardback
Publisher: Boydell &amp; Brewer
Pages: 256
Date Published: 8th Aug 2002

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List of plates
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
Ritual and representation
Sources
Continental influence and native practice
Monastic v lay
2 Christmas and Epiphany
The Christmas octave
Epiphany
3 Candlemas
4 Ash Wednesday and Lent
5 Palm Sunday
6 Holy Week and Easter
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday: Adoratio Crucis
The Harrowing of Hell and the Easter Vigil
Easter morning and the Visitatio
7 Baptism in Anglo-Saxon England
8 Rogationtide and the Ascension
9 The end and the beginning
Pentecost
Advent
The Anglo-Saxon dramatic aesthetic
Bibliography
Index

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An examination of the liturgical rituals of the high festivals of the year and their reflection in the secular church. This volume presents an examination of the liturgical rituals of the high festivals from Christmas to Ascension in late Anglo-Saxon England, particularly in the secular church. It expands the current knowledge of liturgical practice in a period where there is little direct evidence, using vernacular homilies and sermons - important but neglected sources of information - to explore the extent to which monastic practices were extended to the secular church.The performative nature of litury and its spiritual, emotional and educative value receive particular attention; the author argues that preachers were often unconsciously influenced by the liturgical experience of an episode rather than by the biblical narrative which they were ostensibly retelling. M. BRADFORD BEDINGFIELD gained his D.Phil. at Oxford University.

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