... personal breviary liturgical experience communal identit After a novice joined the Order of Preachers, and once he had provided for his habit, the prospective friar had to buy a bible and a breviary of a size that was convenient to carry around. These instructions—launched at the General Chapter...

... was facilitated by translated hymnaries. Finally, I argue that a sufficient fluency in Latin was desirable for understanding liturgical texts, because the liturgical text was understood to comment on the liturgical ritual and thus to enrich a nun’s experience of community and an understanding of her place...

... 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...

... sequential calendars mark a shift away from a predominantly Catholic emphasis on the reiterable experience of the liturgical year and signal a new Protestant investment in linear his- tory. Foxe’s calendar is clearly the more radical of the two, for it completely replaces the traditional liturgical...

...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...

... 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...

... range of interpretive options, her typologies can be seen not just as evidence of her experience reading liturgical books, but also as part of a larger problem of identity and history that persists throughout her performance. Her desire to identify the clergeon, typologically, with the Innocents...

... play. However, as the author of Wis- dom drew on Hilton’s ideas, he also significantly modified them. For the play’s author notably makes visible precisely what for Hilton must remain invisible. In Wisdom, the changes wrought upon the soul by the experiences of sin and penance are anything...

...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...

... 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...

..., the importance of visual and tactile experience to devotion, and after the Reformations, the centrality of verbal and oral experience; before the Reformations, the sacred object, and after the Reformations, the holy book. Yet, as even the most cur- sory examination of an object like the cross reveals...

... at least some of the special power ascribed to it, its boundaries begin to seem less secure and it loses its exclusive rights to the experience of wonder” (12).10 Although Greenblatt rightly sees the Eucharist at the center of debates concerning signification, it is the extreme contradictions of ideal...

..., paperback, ebook. Videen, Hana. The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022. 284 pp., 15 illus. Hardcover, ebook. Suerbaum, Almut, and Annie Sutherland, eds. Medieval Temporalities: The Experience of Time in Medieval Europe . Cambridge: D. S...

... 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...

..., 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...

... impact on contemporary produc- tions of Shakespeare and the closest approximation to date of an early mod- ern theatrical experience within modern constraints: this was Shakespeare, as one reviewer put it, without “any mustiness of the museum.”4 Productions like the Globe’s 2002 Twelfth...

... a wide range of states and practices, many of which have given rise to entire disciplines in themselves. Essays on meditation, prayer, prophecy, and visionary experience are all welcome, as are essays on the particular hab- its, forms of attention, or affective dispositions that have linked...

... in medieval religious Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43:2, Spring 2013 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2082079  © 2013 by Duke University Press culture and experience. Less attention has been paid to the continuity of this experience in post-­Reformation Europe. Although...

..., 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...

... Edited by Shannon Gayk and Robyn Malo Volume 44 / Number 3 / Fall 2014 It is a commonplace that, from religious images and reliquaries to lavish service books, sacred objects played important roles in medieval religious culture and experience. Less attention has been paid to the continuity...