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Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England

By David Jasper

Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England

By David Jasper

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In 1879, the late medieval poem now known as The Lay Folks' Mass Book - a guide to the Mass -- was edited for the Early English Text Society by Canon Thomas Frederick Simmons. It remains the standard edition of what, to modern tastes, can seem a simple work of conventional Middle English devotion. Yet, as this book shows, the poem had a remarkable afterlife. The authors demonstrate how Simmons' interest in and presentation of the text was related profoundly to contemporary concerns and heated debates about worship in the Church of England, at a time when Anglican clergymen could be imprisoned for their ritual practices. Simmons, educated at Oxford during the height of the Oxford Movement, was recognised by contemporaries as a leading authority on liturgy, a topic that troubled prime ministers as well as archbishops, and the authors bring out the ways in which Simmons himself used his medievalist researches as the basis for what was to be the most important attempt at Prayer Book revision between the Reformation and the twentieth century.
Product details
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2023-10-03
Publication Date:
2023-10-03
Publisher:
Boydell Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1783277483
ISBN13:
9781783277483
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
587 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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