The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul

by Edited by Yitzhak Hen , Rob Meens

• ISBN13: 9780521823937
• ISBN10: 0521823935
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The Missal is therefore highly regarded by liturgists; but, additionally, medieval historians welcome the information to be derived from material attached to the codex which provides valuable data about the role and education of priests in Francia at that time, and indeed on their cultural and ideological background. The breadth of specialist knowledge provided by the team of scholars writing for this book enables the manuscript to be viewed as a whole, not as a narrow liturgical study. Collectively, the essays view the manuscript as physical object: they discuss the contents, they examine the language, and they look at the cultural context in which the codex was written.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Bobbio Missal - from Mabillon onwards Yitzhak Hen

2. The script of the Bobbio Missal Rosamond McKitterick

3. The palimpsest leaves in the Bobbio Missal David Ganz

4. Reading and writing the Bobbio Missal: punctuation, word separation and animated initials Marco Mostert

5. Liturgical Latin in the Bobbio Missal Els Rose

6. Additions to the Bobbio Missal: De dies malus and 'Joca monachorum' Charles D. Wright and Roger Wright

7. The Liturgy of the Bobbio Missal Yitzhak Hen

8. Reforming the clergy: a context for the use of the Bobbio penitential Rob Meens

9. Doctrinal and theological themes in the prayers of the Bobbio Missal Louise P. M. Batstone

10. The Missa pro principe in the Bobbio Missal Mary Garrison

11. Liturgy in the Rhô

ne Valley and the Bobbio Missal Ian N. Wood

12. Conclusion Yitzhak Hen and Rob Meens

Manuscript index

General index.