Blessing the world : ritual and lay piety in medieval religion / Derek A. Rivard.

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Rivard, Derek A [author.]

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online resource

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9780813218281
0813218284

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blessing the world.DDC classification:

264/.0200902 22

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BV197.B5 R58 2009eb

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11.52

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Contents:

Introduction -- The history and theology of Christian blessing -- Sacred places and sacred space -- Sacred persons : blessing the laity -- Sacred vessels, objects, and events.

Review: "In this book, Derek A. Rivard studies liturgical blessing and its role in the religious life of Christians during the central and later Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the blessings of the Franco-Roman liturgical tradition from the tenth to late thirteenth centuries. Through a careful and extensive study of more than ninety such blessings, many of them translated for the first time and accessible to a readership beyond specialists in medieval liturgy, the author argues that medieval blessings were composed as a direct response to the needs, anxieties, beliefs, and fears of the laity, and therefore these texts represent a rich and largely untapped source for the study of lay piety and of ritual in medieval Europe."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-315) and index.

Introduction -- The history and theology of Christian blessing -- Sacred places and sacred space -- Sacred persons : blessing the laity -- Sacred vessels, objects, and events.

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"In this book, Derek A. Rivard studies liturgical blessing and its role in the religious life of Christians during the central and later Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the blessings of the Franco-Roman liturgical tradition from the tenth to late thirteenth centuries. Through a careful and extensive study of more than ninety such blessings, many of them translated for the first time and accessible to a readership beyond specialists in medieval liturgy, the author argues that medieval blessings were composed as a direct response to the needs, anxieties, beliefs, and fears of the laity, and therefore these texts represent a rich and largely untapped source for the study of lay piety and of ritual in medieval Europe."--Jacket.

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