... that defined the shifts in liturgical practice in the wake of the Reformation. As Timothy Rosendale has shown, the earliest editions of The Book of Common Prayer displayed a number of ritual cor- respondences with the Roman liturgy, including the use of blessing crosses in a Communion rite that looked...

... put special emphasis on liturgical practice. Accord- ingly, the order’s constitution insisted on uniform liturgical practice in all its communities. Given the importance of liturgical text to Dominican spiritu- ality, it was particularly distressing to Observant reformers that many sisters could...

... of “things indifferent” in worship, he revives ceremonial practice by asserting God’s authorship “of that which is good even in evill things” (Lawes, 22, 25, 157, 162). Discretionary insight by clergymen, if not parishioners, is needed to recognize the value of solemni- ties, including those wrongly...

... and institutions and the interior motion of the soul. By appropriating the contemplative discourse of the soul’s self- knowledge, Wisdom suggests that the sensible, material signs of orthodox liturgical practice are the very matter through which humans gain knowl- edge of, as Anima puts...

... was too indebted to Roman Catholic liturgical practice and to its spurious and superstitious hagiography.4 Although the principal content of the Prayer Book’s calendar is its lections, scholarly treatments of Cranmer’s calendar have focused on the first type of content—Cranmer’s revision...

... emotions; in Paul, it is the believer’s self-regulating actions. Sacrifice, then, can designate a ritual per- formance, an interior state, or a principle of self-regulation. Reformed practice in England tended to deemphasize ritual and to reemphasize the affective and ethical components...

... 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...

... and spectators to assent in specific legal claims to the land in dispute. medieval and early modern Rogation perambulation liturgical practice property law legal disputes performance theory Rogationtide perambulations took place throughout medieval and early modern England as a ritualized religious...

... religion as a personalized (or personalived) religion is a daily life practice, characterized by a kind of self-expression, and by initiating something new, a change of life, a miracle alike. The three questions are: What is a person? What is a practice? What means the affirmation of daily life...

... if other friars had need for such a book. 24 This practice of recycling makes the breviary amenable to being understood as a multigenerational expression of communal and shared experiences. Cues about personal experiences, however, remain rather generalized if the book does not contain the markings...

... of a sacramentum. Although defining the status of sacra became a systematic under- taking only in the thirteenth century, practice and taboo preceded this theo- rization of what made a candlestick, to take only one example, a holy object in church and part of the furniture of mundane existence elsewhere...

..., audiences might substitute the interpretive discourse provided by a preacher to make sense of that text. Enthusiasm for this reading practice that integrates scripture with liturgy is even more evident in Cambridge University Library MS Ll.1.13, a complete New Testament that includes a table...

... proposition rather than as a meaning properly achieved only in communal, liturgical form and practice. 5 Karl Löwith, Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of His- tory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949), 202. 6 Adrian Pabst, “The Unintended Reformation...

... of literature that is not overtly religious. Further, at least in practice, when authors of such “serious poetry” quote biblical texts, spiritualizing exegesis could be treated as almost strictly determinative of the medieval poem’s meaning.4 Whether or not these “medieval conceptions of literature...

... in practices, including liturgical practices, that Gregory identifies as “the inher- ited, shared practice of the virtues” and “the faith’s substantive notion of the good.” Reformers promoted the participation of Christians in a host of prac- tices, understanding these as key to formation in the Christian...

... history suggests a particular type of reading practice. It was the first printed book composed in a smaller “book” typeface (now termed the Durandus type) that came to be associated with private reading of classi- cal works in contrast to the large “missal” type used for liturgical works.10...

... actions, gestures, and behaviors as being the field of expres- sion for the human soul. By ignoring the ritual and liturgical settings of eucharistic practice, then, Greenblatt dehistoricizes and thus absolutizes a distinction between appearance and reality. The “particularity” of Hamlet’s grief...

...: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxii, 244 pp.; 54 black-­and-­white and 17 color illus. Paper $39.99. Lake, Justin. Richer of Saint-­Rèmi: The Methods and Mentality of a Tenth-­ Century Historian. Washington, D.C.: Catholic...

... magisterial Reformers of Luther’s generation wholly accepted this part of his attack on the Mass. But they demanded “further Reformation” of the Eucharist. Luther’s liturgical practice retained as much as possible of the Roman liturgy after excising all details of it that implied the idea of sacrifice...

... of the chapel of St. Elizabeth, . . . dancing, singing and performing plays before the Abbess and nuns of St. Mary’s Abbey in their hall on the Feast of the Innocents”—a practice that continued in nunneries until the dissolution.43 This element of the tale makes relevant the detail in the General Prologue...