The Bobbio Missal : Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul Paperback / softback
Edited by Yitzhak (Anna and Sam Lopin Professor of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Hen, Rob (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) Meens
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology series
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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.
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- Pages:248 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/12/2009
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- ISBN:9780521126915
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/12/2009
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- ISBN:9780521126915
