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...Jay Zysk Situating Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus within the contexts of liturgical history and sacramental theology, this essay argues that the Eucharist provided an influential aesthetic resource for English dramatists in the wake of the Reformation. Drawing on Eucharistic theology, liturgical books...

...Claire Taylor Jones This essay explores how the performance of the liturgy was integrated into late medieval education of nuns, for whom liturgical text conveyed both linguistic and spiritual knowledge. In southern German Observant Dominican convents, Latin language was systematically taught...

..., and addition, which evokes the confessional violence that precipitated in this period at the scale of the built environment. Illustrated plates depict open-plan temples with their ceilings and floors cut away, as if to reenact pictorially the dismantling of rood screens and liturgical furnishings in Catholic...

... the order's unity. This article explores the breviary as both a personal and communal object, examining its liturgical content as an expression of lived religion. It argues that the breviary, often overlooked by scholars, can in some cases reveal a negotiation between individual and communal religious...

... argues that didactic textual representations of dancing reveal elements of lived religion. The imagined dancing in preachers’ exempla served as a warning against illicit behavior, while for the audience it could evoke corporeal praying and an alternative way of celebrating liturgical feasts. Both...

...Andrea Denny-Brown A medieval and early modern “best seller,” William Durandus's monumental late-thirteenth-century liturgical treatise, Rationale Divinorum Officiorum , offered its readers a definitive, codified explanation for almost every aspect of church symbolism. A close look at its book...

... a death at a neighboring monastery. However, through scribal amendments and emendations, the Sherborne Rules subtly break apart and reformulate the sense of community upheld in contemporary monastic codes: by liturgically imagining the confraternity as a bond of friendship between two monastic...

...Aden Kumler In the late fourteenth-century Processional (London, British Library, MS Add. 57534) made for St. Giles’s Hospital, Norwich, nine brightly colored paintings describe a series of liturgical processions in exceptional detail. The manuscript’s images are, however, most remarkable for what...

... for washing liturgical vessels), and a painted wooden box containing a manuscript sheet, “Upon the Birth and death of his deere sonne.” Montagu’s commemorative program invests memorial artifacts with the qualities attributed to sacred objects and develops and defends a private idolatry in which secular...

... the liturgical year: the Book of Common Prayer as a whole told the sixteenth- century English Protestant in advance what would be said at his or her wed- ding, what holy days would be celebrated in the coming month, and what Bible verses would be read on the next Sunday. In general, any calendar serves...

... the texts that opened up different points of entry, modes of engagement, and interpretive questions. Often, Wycliffite translations are accompanied by paratexts like prologues and liturgical calendars; sometimes, they appear alongside didactic texts and other Middle English versions of scripture...

... from nonbiblical sources. At least one of these other kinds of com- pilation was even more ubiquitous in late medieval England than glossed bibles, namely liturgical books, volumes supporting the performance of the Church’s rites and ceremonies.31 The reading and singing of biblical texts...

.... The changes wrought by penance are thus sig- nified through reference to another sacrament, as Anima’s costume changes reverse the liturgical clothing of a newly baptized infant in a white chrismal robe.5 More strikingly still, in this highly material depiction of the soul, Wisdom radically...

.... The Liturgical Sermons: The Reading-Cluny Collection, 2 of 2, Sermons 134–182, and A Sermon upon the Translation of Saint Edward, Confessor . Translated by Daniel Griggs and Tom Licence. Introduction by Marjory Lange. Cistercian Fathers Series, vol. 87. Athens, Ohio: Cistercian Publication; Collegeville, Minn...

... of the British Library. Rawlinson B fol. r; see fig. the Crucifixion, and the Ascension Neither the patron nor the intended user of the Galba Psalter in its new, enhanced form is now known, but its text and pictures indicate that the manuscript was designed for devotional use within a liturgical setting...

....” Cisterian Studies Series, vol. 298. Athens, Ohio: Cisterian Publications; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2023. x, 162 pp. Paperback, ebook. [First complete English translation in over three hundred years of one of the most widely read and distributed works in medieval Latin spirituality, written...

... of those influences by the utterly opposed traditions of Luther and Zwingli, his views are a vital part of the framing of the central liturgical rites of common prayer. For Cranmer, as for many sixteenth-century reformers, it is precisely the papist under- standing of the Mass that renders corporeal...

..., vol. 52. Trappist, Ky.: Cistercian Publications; Col- legeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2013. lxviii, 187 pp. Paper $24.95. Bernet, Claus, ed. Deutsche Quäkerschriften des 17. Jahrhunderts, Band 1. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012. li, 372 pp. eur 98.00. [Facsimile editions...

... Reformation and its Tridentine counterpart involved not just an effort to change theology and implement this in practice. It was an effort to change religious experience. 1 This was a holistic endeavor that embraced sensory elements, from church decoration to religious soundscapes, as well as liturgical...

..., citations by means of which the Prioress seeks to accommodate her language to the hieratic norms of a liturgical discourse that is purged of historical impurities and endowed instead with an institutional solidity and transpersonal validity.6 Indeed, the final action of the tale—the bearing...