The homiliary of Paul the Deacon : religious and cultural reform in Carolingian Europe / Zachary Guiliano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guiliano, Zachary, 1986- author.

Series:

Sermo ; v.16.

Sermo ; 16

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Sermons--History and criticism.

Sermons.

Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?.

Paul.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

341 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2021.

Summary:

An ambitious examination of one of the most important theological and liturgical texts of the Middle Ages - the homiliary of Paul the Deacon commissioned by Charlemagne - and the first comprehensive study of its earliest witnesses, a resource for all those interested in Charlemagne, medieval liturgy, theology, and preaching. As one of the most widely used products of Charlemagne's religious and cultural reforms, the homiliary of Paul the Deacon is a unique monument in the history of Western Europe. Completed around AD 797, this collection of patristic homilies and sermons shaped the religious faith and liturgical practices of the churches in Carolingian Europe and those of countless other churches over the course of a millennium of use. Until now, scholarly study of the homiliary has rested on seven partial witnesses to the collection. This study, however, draws on over 80 newly identified witnesses from the Carolingian period, while providing a brief guide and handlist to hundreds of later manuscripts. It replaces the current scholarly reconstruction of the homiliary, discusses the significance of the collection's liturgical structure and provisions, and considers the composition of the homiliary in the context of Charlemagne's reforms and Paul?s patron-client relationships. The study also brings together evidence for the production and use of this text in thirty-three Carolingian monasteries, cathedrals, and churches. The book then addresses the homiliary's theological character: the contents of the homiliary reflected a concern for expressing and defending orthodox doctrine at Charlemagne's court against Trinitarian and Christological heresies, as well as an urgent attention to moral reform in the light of a belief in the imminence of divine judgement. Finally, the study demonstrates the varied uses of Paul?s collection and its historical legacy.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 0.1. The Homiliary in Scholarship: Editions and Reconstructions

0.2. The Homiliary in Scholarship: The Nature of the Epistola Generalis

0.3. The Homiliary in Scholarship: The History of Preaching

0.4. The Homiliary in Scholarship: Anglo-Saxon England

0.5. Manuscript Studies and the Advent of Digital Research

0.6. The Carolingian Witnesses to Paul's Homiliary

0.7. Outline of the Book's Argument

ch. 1 Curat nobis est: The Manuscript Witnesses and Paul's Text

1.1. The Manuscript Base

1.2. General Features of the Extant Manuscripts

1.3. The Witnesses Transmitting the Prefatory Material and Carolingian Witnesses

1.4. The Original Structure of Paul's Homiliary: The Winter Volume

1.5. The Winter Portion: Contested Entries

1.6. The Original Structure of Paul's Homiliary: The Summer Volume

1.7. Conclusion

ch. 2 Per totius anni circulum: Paul's Liturgical Year

2.1. `Individual Sundays and the Remaining Feasts'

2.2. The Sanctoral Cycle

2.3. The Purpose of a Limited Sanctoral Cycle

2.4. `Diverse Fasts' and Other Occasions

2.5. The Greater and Lesser Litanies

2.6. In traditione symboli: Catechesis and Creed in Lent

2.7. Anniversaries of Death

2.8. The Sundays after Pentecost

2.9. Paul's Work, the Christian Year, and the Influence of Other Liturgical Books

2.10. A Specific Liturgical Year?

2.11. Conclusion

2.12. Outline of the Winter Volume: The Fifth Sunday before Christmas to Holy Saturday

2.13. Outline of the Summer Volume (A): Easter to Saint Matthew

2.14. Outline of the Summer Volume (B): Commune sanctorum (the Common of Saints)

ch. 3 Eniutus patris Benedicti: The Composition of the Homiliary

3.1. The Representation of Paul's Work in the Homiliary's Preface

3.2. The Homiliary's Organizational Features: Rubrics, Readings, Authors

3.3. The Collection's Contents: Homilies and Sermons from Surprising Fathers

3.4. The Origins of Paul's Texts and the State of Carolingian Libraries

3.5. A Wandering Monk? Paul on the Road and in the Scriptorium

3.6. Conclusion: Paul and Patronage, Earthly and Heavenly

3.7. Postscript: Dating Paul's Collection

ch. 4 Per sacra domicilia Christi: The Dissemination of the Homiliary

4.1. The Epistola Generalis and Dissemination

4.2. Capitulary Legislation and the Homiliary's Dissemination

4.3. Manuscript Production: The Physical Constraints on Dissemination

4.4. Difficulties for `Mass Production': The Example of Tours, the Setting of the Court

4.5. Literary Evidence for Dissemination

4.6. Manuscript Evidence (A): Twenty-Two Clear Palaeographical Identifications, Twelve Unclear

4.7. Manuscript Evidence (B): Transmission of Textual Variants Implies Further Copies

4.8. Key Textual Variants in the Summer Volume

4.9. Key Textual Variants in the Winter Volume

4.10. Paul's Two Volumes often Circulated Separately

4.11. Conclusion

ch. 5 Optima decerpens: The Theology of Paul's Collection

5.1. The Emphases of the Collection: Gospel Exegesis, Doctrinal Sermons

5.2. The Bible in Paul's Collection: Texts and Theory

5.3. The Admonitio Generalis and Carolingian Theology

5.4. God the Trinity: Foundations

5.5. Definitions of the Trinitarian Relations

5.6. Christology and Chalcedon

5.7. Looser Christological Formulations: Origen and Maximus II

5.8. Preparing for the End: Eschatology a Constant Theme

5.9. Ethics and Imitation

5.10. Specific Ethical Practices: Fasting, Confession, Almsgiving, Care for the Dead

5.11. Conclusion

ch. 6 Tradimus: The Use of Paul's Homiliary

6.1. Crafting New Collections

6.2. Amplified Homiliaries

6.3. Abbreviated Homiliaries

6.4. Cases of Extraction

6.5. Abbreviated Readings

6.6. Decorated Texts

6.7. Private Study and Meditation

6.8. Preaching and Regulatory Material (Capitularies, Councils, Statutes, Rules)

6.9. Preaching and the Manuscript Evidence

6.10. Liturgical Reading

6.11. Liturgical Reading and Manuscript Evidence

6.12. Other Uses: Storing Prayers and Community Memory

6.13. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [301] to 323) and index.

ISBN:

2503577911

9782503577913

OCLC:

1240493278

Publisher Number:

99988321639