The Lay Folks' Mass Book' and Thomas Frederick Simmons: Medievalism and the Tractarians
Thomas Frederick Simmons (1815-84) combined his ecclesiastical duties and liturgical interests with editing the fourteenth-century Middle English Lay folks' mass book (1879) for the Early English Text Society, with the aim of showing the continuity of the English Church from the medieval period...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2019]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2019, Volume: 70, Issue: 4, Pages: 785-804 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Simmons, Thomas Frederick 1815-1884
/ The lay folks’ mass book
/ Oxford Movement
/ England
/ Middle Ages
/ Church
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IxTheo Classification: | KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDE Anglican Church RC Liturgy |
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Summary: | Thomas Frederick Simmons (1815-84) combined his ecclesiastical duties and liturgical interests with editing the fourteenth-century Middle English Lay folks' mass book (1879) for the Early English Text Society, with the aim of showing the continuity of the English Church from the medieval period through the Reformation. In the light of modern scholarship, this article recontextualises both medieval text and Simmons's own editorial practice, and shows how Simmons, as a second-generation Tractarian churchman, sought in this text - and others associated with it - evidence for the Church of England's Catholic underpinning in an imagined medieval English Church. |
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ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S002204691900054X |