The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul

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Yitzhak Hen (Anna and Sam Lopin Professor of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Rob Meens (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)

The Bobbio Missal

Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul

Yitzhak Hen (Anna and Sam Lopin Professor of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Rob Meens (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)

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Cambridge University Press
03 December 2009

Palaeography (history of writing); Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary reference works; Acquisitions & collection development

Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology

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.

Edited by: Yitzhak Hen (Anna and Sam Lopin Professor of History Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel), Rob Meens (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 11
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9780521126915
ISBN 10: 0521126916
Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 03 December 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul

Review of the hardback: 'This volume of studies is, in its production as well as the quality of its contents a credit to the distinguished series in which it appears.' The Library the combined effect of the first-rate scholarship assembled here puts the study of this unique and intriguing manuscript on an entirely new footing. - Journal of English and Germanic Philolgy Frederick S> Paxton, Connecticut College This volume is admirable, indeed, exemplary - Daniel Sheerin, University of Notre Dame The book revises the paleographical and codicological analyses in E.A. Lowe's 1924 edition of this missal, extending Lowe's historical evaluation to discuss the notions of literacy, liturgical evolution, and clerical reform, as well as offering a viw of eighth century Southern Gaul within the broader European social environment. The Bobbio Missal thus provides an excellent introduction to the study of Merovingian liturgical manuscripts for students and specialists alike. - Laura Marchiori, University of Toronto