Ritual Memory

The Apocryphal Acts and Liturgical Commemoration in the Early Medieval West (C.500-1215)
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17171-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 618 g

Reihe: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte

Ritual Memory brings together two areas of study which have hitherto rarely been studied in comparison: liturgy and the apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. The book gives an analysis of the liturgical celebration of the apostles in the medieval West and examines the incorporation of the apocrypha in practices of ritual commemoration. It reveals the role that liturgy played in the transmission of the apocryphal Acts and visualises the way these narrative traditions developed and changed through their incorporation into a ritual context. The result is a dynamic picture of the ritual reception of the extra-canonical Acts in the Latin Middle Ages, where the apocryphal legends about the apostolic past were approached as memorable traditions on the origins of Christianity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rose, Els

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Apokryphen, Pseudepigraphen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Abbreviations

General Introduction
1. The apocryphal acts and liturgical commemoration
2. Bartholomew: apostle against idols
3. Philip and James: brothers in cult
4. Matthew:sinner and saint
5. Simon and Jude: brothers in martyrdom
6.Images of the apostles
7. Epilogue

Subject index
Index of personal names
Indx of biblical passages

Über Autor(innen)

Els Rose, took her doctoral degree (2001, Utrecht University) with a thesis on language and liturgy in Merovingian Gaul. She teaches Medieval Latin at the same university, and has published recently on the apocrypha in medieval religious culture.