Willelmi Meldunensis Monachi Liber super Explanationem Lamentationum Ieremiae Prophetae. Edited by Michael Winterbottom and Rodney E. Thomson
The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet have not often been the subject of commentaries, but have been well known among biblical texts because of the liturgical use of some of their sections in the office of Tenebrae, the night office of the monks for the Triduum in Holy Week. William, as precentor...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 299-300 |
| Review of: | Liber super explanationem lamentationum Ieremiae Prophetae (Turnhout : Brepols, 2011) (Ward, Benedicta)
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| Summary: | The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet have not often been the subject of commentaries, but have been well known among biblical texts because of the liturgical use of some of their sections in the office of Tenebrae, the night office of the monks for the Triduum in Holy Week. William, as precentor at Malmesbury, would certainly have known them from this source and his commentary shows this. Another aspect of his use of liturgical sources is his reliance on the commentary of Paschasius, a monk-singer of the ninth century. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls155 |