Liturgical manuals – liturgical norms
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CJ Jones
Abstract
In the second half of the fifteenth century, the reform practices of the Dominican Observance created a network of book exchange through which German-language devotional literature and Latin-language liturgical manuscripts were transmitted throughout southern Germany. This essay introduces another class of reform literature: German-language liturgical manuals that supplemented the texts and melodies contained in Latin liturgica with instructions for ritual actions and for coordinating feasts. A full set of three manuscripts survives from the Dominican convent of Weiler in Esslingen, reformed to the Observance in 1478. The set consists of a German translation of the official Dominican ordinarium, along with a directorium in two volumes (Temporale and Sanctorale). The bilingual content and textual history of these manuscripts challenge some of the binaries (Latin/German, Observant/non-Observant) that have informed our understandings of fifteenth-century reform and shed light on the transregional networks to which the Dominican convents of Württemberg belonged.
Abstract
In the second half of the fifteenth century, the reform practices of the Dominican Observance created a network of book exchange through which German-language devotional literature and Latin-language liturgical manuscripts were transmitted throughout southern Germany. This essay introduces another class of reform literature: German-language liturgical manuals that supplemented the texts and melodies contained in Latin liturgica with instructions for ritual actions and for coordinating feasts. A full set of three manuscripts survives from the Dominican convent of Weiler in Esslingen, reformed to the Observance in 1478. The set consists of a German translation of the official Dominican ordinarium, along with a directorium in two volumes (Temporale and Sanctorale). The bilingual content and textual history of these manuscripts challenge some of the binaries (Latin/German, Observant/non-Observant) that have informed our understandings of fifteenth-century reform and shed light on the transregional networks to which the Dominican convents of Württemberg belonged.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Inhalt VII
- Vorwort IX
- Zur Einleitung 1
- Württemberg als Kulturlandschaft im späteren Mittelalter 11
- Wissen für den Hof 37
- The Orient in Württemberg 47
- Zur Buchkultur am spätmittelalterlichen württembergischen Hof 67
- Der Schwanenritter in Württemberg 111
- The literary culture of Dominican women in late medieval Germany 157
- Liturgical manuals – liturgical norms 283
- Die Edelsteine der schwäbischen Krone 313
- Gräfin Katharina von Württemberg und die oberschwäbischen Doppelklöster der Prämonstratenser im Mittelalter 345
- Konstruktionen monastischer Identitäten 385
- The ›Alexiuslegende‹ in Esslingen 457
- Württembergisches in Donaueschinger Handschriften? 487
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Anhang
- Stammtafel 524
- Abkürzungsverzeichnis 526
- Abbildungsnachweis 527
- Handschriftenregister 528
- Register der Personen, Werke und Orte 539
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Inhalt VII
- Vorwort IX
- Zur Einleitung 1
- Württemberg als Kulturlandschaft im späteren Mittelalter 11
- Wissen für den Hof 37
- The Orient in Württemberg 47
- Zur Buchkultur am spätmittelalterlichen württembergischen Hof 67
- Der Schwanenritter in Württemberg 111
- The literary culture of Dominican women in late medieval Germany 157
- Liturgical manuals – liturgical norms 283
- Die Edelsteine der schwäbischen Krone 313
- Gräfin Katharina von Württemberg und die oberschwäbischen Doppelklöster der Prämonstratenser im Mittelalter 345
- Konstruktionen monastischer Identitäten 385
- The ›Alexiuslegende‹ in Esslingen 457
- Württembergisches in Donaueschinger Handschriften? 487
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Anhang
- Stammtafel 524
- Abkürzungsverzeichnis 526
- Abbildungsnachweis 527
- Handschriftenregister 528
- Register der Personen, Werke und Orte 539
