RT Article
T1 Ite potus est: Liturgical parody and views of late-medieval worship
JF Sacris erudiri
VO 48
SP 275
OP 309
A1 Romano, J. F.
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817449222
AB This article examines the genre of liturgical parody for the information it provides on late-medieval worship. Though sometimes dismissed as anticlerical, these texts were in fact written by the clergy and demonstrate considerable familiarity with liturgical formulae. Parodists understood the liturgy well and manipulated its words cleverly to produce humor or to attack others — above all, heretical Bohemians. Liturgical parody reveals clerical attitudes toward and mundane interaction with the liturgy. These compositions allow scholars to counter timeworn stereotypes of a declining late-medieval liturgy. They suggest instead that public worship was at times light-hearted and enjoyable, and it could build community.
DO 10.1484/J.SE.1.100560