Blessing the world: ritual and lay piety in medieval religion
Blessings were an integral and vital element of medieval Christian life and worship. Benedictions for homes and workplaces, the knight and the pilgrim, the city under siege, and the fetus in the womb, are but a small sample of the multitudinous and fascinating extra-sacramental blessings that fill t...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C.
Catholic University of America Press
2009
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| Reviews: | Blessing the world. Ritual and lay piety in medieval religion. By Derek A. Rivard. Pp. xii+332. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. 39.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 1545 7 (2009) (Bynum, Caroline Walker)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Blessing
/ Liturgy
/ Popular piety
/ Layman
/ History 500-1500
B Religion / Ritual / Piety / Middle Ages / History |
| IxTheo Classification: | RA Practical theology RC Liturgy |
| Further subjects: | B
Liturgics
History
Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Piety History To 1500 B Benediction B Liturgics B Piety History Middle Ages, 600-1500 |
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| Summary: | Blessings were an integral and vital element of medieval Christian life and worship. Benedictions for homes and workplaces, the knight and the pilgrim, the city under siege, and the fetus in the womb, are but a small sample of the multitudinous and fascinating extra-sacramental blessings that fill the leaves of the liturgical books of the medieval Latin Church. While commonly acknowledged as a crucial element in the life of medieval people, the meaning and importance of these blessings for their authors and audiences have been frequently overlooked by liturgical and historical scholarship, which has focused instead on the textual transmission and long-term changes in the blessings and the rituals surrounding them. This present work corrects this omission by examining these blessings with modern eyes, and a new methodology.In "Blessing the World", Derek A. Rivard studies liturgical blessing and its role in the religious life of Christians during the central and later Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the blessings of the Franco-Roman liturgical tradition from the tenth to late thirteenth centuries. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0813215455 |