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Ritual Life in the Medieval Dominican Order: Liturgical Expressions
This collection of essays devoted to the Dominican liturgy in the Middle Ages begins with the reform of ritual and music identified with Humbert of Romans (1200-1277), and proceeds, more concretely, to the cult and liturgy at the shrine of St Thomas Aquinas at Toulouse. The last thirty years have greatly revised many older assumptions on medieval liturgy, and these essays reflect that development. By focusing on manuscript examples of local practice, they replace the older model of reform by top-down legislation with one of greater complexity and local diversity. Together they show the reforms were not an imposition of a normative "prototype" but a work in process that not only included reworking of older texts and music but also entirely new compositions. The contributions also expand scholarly focus beyond the liturgy of the friars to include that of cloistered nuns, Dominican penitent women, and lay people present at the liturgy. As such, they reflect a shift to a more "anthropological" and less "philological" approach, a move from an understanding of liturgy as a "text" to liturgy as a "performance." That change especially inflects the essays on the cult of Thomas, which had a political as well as a religious dimension. The liturgy at the saint's shrine in Toulouse occurred within a complex architectural and material environment that itself underwent continuous physical development. The Dominican liturgy was always presented and reinterpreted through the sermons preached during its performance. Thus, this volume fittingly closes with an edition of, and commentary on, the oldest known sermons on Thomas, probably preached at his shrine in Toulouse.
Book Details
- Publisher: PIMS
- Publish Date: May 26th, 2025
- Pages: 376
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
- EAN: 9780888448385
- Categories: • Christian Church - History• Europe - Medieval• Christian Rituals & Practice - Worship & Liturgy
About the Author
Augustine Thompson, O.P. is the Praeses of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. He previously taught medieval religious history at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, the University of Virginia, and the University of Oregon. His books and articles, focused especially on high medieval Italian religious and intellectual history, include most recently Dominican Brothers: Conversi, Lay, and Cooperator Friars (2017); Francis of Assisi: A New Biography (2012); and Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325 (2005).
Praise for this book
"Ritual Life in the Medieval Dominican Order represents an important milestone for Dominican and liturgical studies. The book offers a cross-disciplinary study of the rites of Dominican friars, nuns, and lay penitents in the Middle Ages, in the context of a more global religious history. The volume spans the history of the offices from the generalate of Humbert of Romans onwards, the worship of saints (especially Mary Magdalene and Thomas Aquinas), and the scope of communal confession, drawing on a renewed study of texts, music, and architectural space. The ten essays gathered here, written by leading specialists in the field, offer original research supported by editions of manuscripts and hitherto unpublished materials. Historians, art historians, musicologists, and philologists will benefit greatly from reading these thought-provoking and rigorous analyses." -- Haude Morvan, Universite Bordeaux Montaigne