LIBER ORDINARIUS OF NIVELLES HOUGHTON LIBRARY, MS LAT 422 : liturgy as.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : EISENBRAUNS, 2020.

Summary:

Throughout the Middle Ages, the religious women of Nivelles Abbey governed one of the most venerable and powerful ecclesiastical institutions in the Holy roman Empire, which played a critical role, not only as the center of the cult of St Gertrude, but also as a lynchpin in the power politics of the empire. The discovery of the oldest surviving manuscript from the abbey, its Liber ordinarius, thus represents a significant addition to our knowledge, not only of Nivelles' liturgy and the development of the cult of its patron saint, but also of the history of female monasticism in the High Middle Ages. In addition to a wealth of detail concerning the abbey's liturgical ceremonies, the LIber orinarius permits fresh insight into the balance of poer in this politically highly competitive region in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It also sheds light on the social and the architectural history of the bui9lding, which was badly damaged in WWII. The documents incorporated in the manuscript, most of which were previously unknown and which are edited here for the first time, enhance greatly what isknown about the politics of the period as well as the inner workings of the abbey at a time of economic and administrative conflict. --Dustjacket Front Inside Flap.

Contents:

The Manuscript

Description of the Liber ordinarius of Nivelles, Houghton Library, MS Lat 422 and the Date of its Decoration p. 11 / Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Codicology and Paleography of the Nivelles Liber ordinarius p. 15 / Albert Derolez

Pilgrims, the Poor, and the Powerful: The Long History of the Women of Nivelles p. 35 / Eva Schlotheuber

Worlds Apart? Beguine Communities of Nivelles and the Abbey of St Gertrude, from Marie d'Oignies (d. 1213) to the Liber ordinarius (c. 1300) p. 97 / Walter Simons

Order and Disorder: The Documentary Additions to the Liber ordinarius of Nivelles p. 133 / Rowan Dorin

The Cult

Elizabeth de Bierbais and the Relics of Gertrude of Nivelles p. 153 / Bonnie Effros

Placet nobis electio: The Election and Investiture of the Abbess at Fourteenth-Century Nivelles p. 165 / Alison I. Beach

Liturgical History and Hagiography as Reflected in the Ordinal of Nivelles, with Emphasis on the Cult of St Gertrude p. 175 / Margot Fassler

The Liturgy

Holy Week in Nivelles p. 239 / Louis van Tongeren

On the Road: The Processions of the Canonesses of Nivelles and their Attitude towards the Outside World (c. 1350) p. 255 / Charles Caspers

The Architecture

The Abbey Church of St Gertrude in Nivelles: Observations regarding its Architectural Disposition p. 279 / Klaus-Gereon Beuckers

Maiorem ecclesiam esse matrem omnium ecclesiarum totius villae: On the Sacral Topography of Nivelles based on the Liber ordinarius p. 313

The Documents - Edition, Commentary, and Translation

Personnel of the Church of Nivelles as seen in the Liber ordinarius p. 341 / Thomas Forrest Kelly

The French of Nivelles: A Vernacular Legalese in the Making p. 359 / Virginie Greene

Note on the Language of the Documents Pertaining to the Abbey of Nivelles p. 379 / Hannah Weaver

Document Edition and Translation p. 380 / Eva Schlotheuber and Jeffrey F. Hamburger.

ISBN:

9783161582424

316158242X

OCLC:

1134852977

Publisher Number:

99984106024