Liturgy and sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle : music, relics, and sacral kingship in thirteenth-century France / by Yossi Maurey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maurey, Yossi, author.

Series:

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; v. 35.

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; 35

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Sainte-Chapelle (Paris, France).

Catholic Church.

Church music--France--Paris--500-1400.

Church music.

Catholic Church--France--Liturgy--History--To 1500.

Sainte-Chapelle (Paris, France)--History.

Monarchy--France--History--To 1500.

Monarchy.

Divine right of kings.

History.

Liturgics.

France.

France--Paris.

Physical Description:

247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]

Summary:

How music and liturgy naturalized the notion of sacral kingship at the Sainte-Chapelle in 13th-century Paris.00The book revolves around some of the most important relics of Christendom - chief among them the Crown of Thorns - and the ways in which they became, effectively, personal objects of devotion, notwithstanding their ostensibly universal appeal. It was France that laid claim to the Passion and other relics in the middle of the thirteenth century in a campaign that involved the construction of a new magnificent chapel - the Sainte-Chapelle - designed specifically to display the relics, and the composition of new liturgies to celebrate and focus attention on them. As inert objects, relics could not accomplish much without being ?activated? one way or the other, whether in prose, poetry, paintings, statues, or in music. It is these modes of activation that endowed the substance of relics with identity and meaning that made them so powerful and effective. The liturgies studied in this book were some of the most critical mechanisms of activation; they enabled the power of the Sainte-Chapelle relics, articulated the nature of that power, and proclaimed it far and wide. Nowhere is this more evident than in the sequences memorializing these relics, which were chiefly cultivated and championed at the Sainte-Chapelle. This book examines these sequences, and the ways in which they give prominence to the underlying agenda of the French monarchy by promoting and naturalizing the notion of sacral kingship, rooted in biblical kingship.

How music and liturgy naturalized the notion of sacral kingship at the Sainte-Chapelle in 13th-century Paris. The book revolves around some of the most important relics of Christendom - chief among them the Crown of Thorns - and the ways in which they became, effectively, personal objects of devotion, notwithstanding their ostensibly universal appeal. It was France that laid claim to the Passion and other relics in the middle of the thirteenth century in a campaign that involved the construction of a new magnificent chapel - the Sainte-Chapelle - designed specifically to display the relics, and the composition of new liturgies to celebrate and focus attention on them. As inert objects, relics could not accomplish much without being 'activated' one way or the other, whether in prose, poetry, paintings, statues, or in music. It is these modes of activation that endowed the substance of relics with identity and meaning that made them so powerful and effective. The liturgies studied in this book were some of the most critical mechanisms of activation; they enabled the power of the Sainte-Chapelle relics, articulated the nature of that power, and proclaimed it far and wide. Nowhere is this more evident than in the sequences memorializing these relics, which were chiefly cultivated and championed at the Sainte-Chapelle. This book examines these sequences, and the ways in which they give prominence to the underlying agenda of the French monarchy by promoting and naturalizing the notion of sacral kingship, rooted in biblical kingship.

Contents:

Part I The Crown of Thorns (11 August)

Historia susceptionis coronae spinae p. 29

The Liturgy for the Crown of Thorns p. 30

Sequences for 11 August and its Octave p. 35

Si vis vere p. 40

Regis et pontificis p. 45

Gaude, Syon, que diem recolis qua corona p. 61

Liberalis manus Dei p. 66

Quasi stella matutina p. 70

Verbum bonum et iocundum p. 74

Florem spina coronavit p. 78

Letetur felix Gallia p. 81

Gens Gallorum p. 87

Epilogue - Dyadema salutare p. 92

Part II The Reception of Relics (30 September)

Relics in Motion p. 101

The Liturgy for the Reception of the Relics p. 107

Sequences for 30 September and its Octave p. 115

Nos ad laudes p. 118

Solemnes in hac die p. 122

Gaude, Syon, que diem recolis qua vexilla p. 125

Nos oportet gloriari p. 129

Cum tremore exulta p. 135

Vergente mundi vespere, cruris p. 141

Res est venerabilis p. 143

Sexta passus feria p. 145

Cursor levis arete p. 149

Letabundus decantet fidelis p. 153.

ISBN:

2503591051

9782503591056

OCLC:

1240491663