The Secular Liturgical Office in Late Medieval England

by Matthew Cheung Salisbury

Until recently, research on the late medieval English Office liturgy has suggested that all manuscripts of the same liturgical Use, including those of the celebrated and widespread Uses of Sarum and York, are in large part interchangeable and uniform. This study demonstrates, through detailed analyses of the manuscript breviaries and antiphonals of each secular liturgical Use of medieval England, that such books do share a common textual core. But...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503548067
• ISBN13: 9782503548067
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"