The Feast of Corpus Christi

The Feast of Corpus Christi

The Feast of Corpus Christi

The Feast of Corpus Christi

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Overview

The feast of Corpus Christi, one of the most solemn feasts of the Latin Church, can be traced to the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and its resolution of disputes over the nature of the Eucharist. The feast was first celebrated in Liège in 1246, thanks largely to the efforts of a religious woman, Juliana of Mont Cornillon, who not only popularized the feast, but also wrote key elements of an original office.

This volume presents for the first time a complete set of source materials germane to the study of the feast of Corpus Christi. In addition to the multiple versions of the original Latin liturgy, a set of poems in Old French, and their English translations, the book includes complete transcriptions of the music associated with the feast. An introductory essay lays out the historical context for understanding the initiation and reception of the feast.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780271076386
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Publication date: 11/09/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 562
File size: 15 MB
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About the Author

Barbara R. Walters is Professor of Sociology at The City University of New York, Kingsborough Community College and SPS, University Center.

Vincent Corrigan is Professor of Musicology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Peter T. Ricketts is Honorary Professor of French Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Preface

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. THE FEAST AND ITS FOUNDER by Barbara R. Walters

The Vita of Juliana of Mont Cornillon

Realizing Juliana of Mont Cornillon

Juliana of Mont Cornillon as Prophetess

Diffusion of the Feast through Social Networks

Thirteenth-Century Liège

The Community of Women

Textual Communities and Texts

PART II: MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: SOURCES

2. INTRODUCTION TO THE LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS by Barbara R. Walters

BNF 755 and Offices A, B, and C

Chronological Ordering of the Three Offices and the Papal Bull Transiturus

Gy and Zawilla’s Analyses

The New Critical Editions

3. CRITICAL EDITIONS OF THE LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS by Vincent Corrigan

The Manuscripts

Indices

Editions

The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands, MS 70.E.4

Prague, Abbey of Strahov, MS D.E.I.7

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 1143

Graz, Universitäts Bibliothek, MS 134

Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, 139

Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library,

Special Collections, Vault 091 R263 1343

Edinburgh University Library, MS 211.iv (Inchcolm Antiphonary)

PART III: POEMS OF THE MOSAN PSALTERS

4. INTRODUCTION TO THE MOSAN PSALTERS by Barbara R. Walters

CRITICAL EDITION OF THE POEMS OF THE MOSAN PSALTERS

by Peter T. Ricketts

Bibliography

Manuscripts

Published Sources

Index

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