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Chapter 4 - Liturgical ‘Usefulness’ and Reading the Ordines Romani

from Part I - Compilation and Content of the Manuscripts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2024

Arthur Westwell
Arthur Westwell
Affiliation:
Universität Regensburg, Germany
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Summary

Themanuscripts discussed above are analysed as examples of the diverse practices of using and reading liturgical texts in the Early Middle Ages. Accompanying text and apparatus are noted and studied, showing that none of the manuscripts fully agree with the conception of ‘purely’ liturgical or non-liturgical texts erected by scholarly analysis and cataloguing. Education co-existed with narrative and prescription of ritual. All the texts led towards deeper understanding, the precondition for correct performance. Manuscripts in which the ordines appear alongside canon law, papal history, and within liturgical books of other genres, are all discussed.

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studyliturgyritualpontificallawhistorytheologyeducation
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Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity
The Early Medieval Manuscripts of the Ordines Romani
 , pp. 69 - 100
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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