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Title:Liturgy & the Arts in the Middle Ages : Studies in Honour of C Clifford Flanigan
Author:Eva Louise Lillie & Nils Holger Petersen (eds)
ISBN:8772893613 : 9788772893617
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:150x230mm
Pages:249
Weight: .48 Kg.
Published:Museum Tusculanum Press - December 1996
List Price: 34 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:History of art: c500 CE to c1400: Religious subjects depicted in art: Roman Catholicism; Roman Catholic Church: Christian liturgy; prayerbooks & hymnals: EUROPE: c1000CE-c1500: c1500-c1600


This volume contains a collection of essays in honour of the late Professor of Comparative Literature, C Clifford Flanigan, who died suddenly in 1993 at the age of 52. The scholarship of this book constitutes an example of the interdisciplinary approach to the study of ecclesiastical history which is the aim of the newly established Centre for Christianity and the Arts at the Theological Faculty at the University of Copenhagen.

CONTENTS: Introduction; Medieval liturgy and the arts -- Visitatio Sepulchri as paradigm; Dynamic qualities in the medieval office; The meaning and the function of the Introit; Length and festivity -- on some prolongation techniques in Byzantine chant; Stational liturgy and processional antiphons in the Ambrosian rite; Supera agalmata -- angels and the celestial hierarchy in sequences and tropes; Beata Maria semper virgo in Piacenza, Biblioteca Capitulare c.65; Liturgy as a theological place -- possibilities and limitations in interpreting liturgical texts as seen in the Office of the Dead; Liturgical representation and late medieval piety; O vos omnes qui transitis per viam... the quotation from the Lamentations 1, 12 in Danish medieval visual art; On the connection between medieval wooden sculpture and murals in Scanian churches.