Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this innovative study, Helen Gittos examines ceremonies for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, processional feasts like Candlemas, Palm Sunday, and Rogationtide, as well as personal rituals such as...

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1. Verfasser:	Gittos, Helen 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford Oxford Univ. Press 2013
Ausgabe:	1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:	Medieval history and archaeology
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 500-1100 Kirche Liturgie Ritual England Hochschulschrift
Online-Zugang:	BSB01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this innovative study, Helen Gittos examines ceremonies for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, processional feasts like Candlemas, Palm Sunday, and Rogationtide, as well as personal rituals such as baptisms and funerals. Drawing on little-known surviving liturgical sources as well as other written evidence, archaeology, and architecture, she considers the architectural context in which such rites were performed. The research in this book has implications for a wide range of topics, such as: how liturgy was written and disseminated in the early Middle Ages, when Christian cemeteries first began to be consecrated, how the form of Anglo-Saxon monasteries changed over time and how they were used, the centrality and nature of processions in early medieval religious life, the evidence church buildings reveal about changes in how they functioned, beliefs about relics, and the attitudes of different archbishops to the liturgy
Beschreibung:	Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 350 S.) Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:	9780191804304
DOI:	10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199270903.001.0001