The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology)
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Yitzhak Hen (Contributor) Rob Meens (Contributor)
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The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The Missal is therefore highly regarded by liturgists; but, additionally, medieval historians welcome the information to be derived from material attached to the codex, which provides valuable data about the role and education of priests in Francia at that time, and indeed on their cultural and ideological background. The breadth of specialist knowledge provided by the team of scholars writing for this book enables the manuscript to be viewed as a whole, not as a narrow liturgical study. Collectively, the essays view the manuscript as physical object: they discuss the contents, they examine the language, and they look at the cultural context in which the codex was written.
About the Author
Dr Yitzhak Hen is in the Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Dr Rob Meens is in the Department of History, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Contributor: Yitzhak Hen
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9780521823937
- Number of Pages: 246
- Packaged Dimensions: 185x242x19mm
- Packaged Weight: 600
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2004-03-11
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Dr Yitzhak Hen is in the Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Dr Rob Meens is in the Department of History, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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