Christina M. Gschwandtner
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780823286430
- eISBN:
- 9780823288946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823286430.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 1 analyzes the liturgical experience of time. It begins with brief reviews of how liturgical theologians and phenomenologists respectively explore time. It then examines in more detail the ...
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Chapter 1 analyzes the liturgical experience of time. It begins with brief reviews of how liturgical theologians and phenomenologists respectively explore time. It then examines in more detail the temporality of Orthodox liturgy: its tension between anamnesis and eschaton, the liturgical present, the cyclical back-and-forth between penitence and celebration, and its emphasis on repetition.Less
Chapter 1 analyzes the liturgical experience of time. It begins with brief reviews of how liturgical theologians and phenomenologists respectively explore time. It then examines in more detail the temporality of Orthodox liturgy: its tension between anamnesis and eschaton, the liturgical present, the cyclical back-and-forth between penitence and celebration, and its emphasis on repetition.
Vasiliki M. Limberis
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199730889
- eISBN:
- 9780199895229
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730889.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
This chapter presents an overview of the centrality of the cult of the martyrs in the Christianity of the Cappadocian Fathers. Regardless of social status, all Christians were enthusiastic for the ...
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This chapter presents an overview of the centrality of the cult of the martyrs in the Christianity of the Cappadocian Fathers. Regardless of social status, all Christians were enthusiastic for the frequent celebrations of the local martyrs, even after the Constantinian settlement. The chapter gives a detailed analysis of the ways in which the Cappadocian Fathers not only were personally devoted to the martyrs but also regularized the cults through close attention to the the panegyris, the festival for the martyr. Their writings reveal the rituals of the martyr panegyris and the laity’s behavior, expectations, and attitudes. The chapter examines how rudimentary the cult of the martyrs was for the Cappadocians as bishops: as organizational principle, as a dominant hermeneutic of Scripture, as promoter of doctrine, as catechetical example for liturgy. The chapter ends with the analysis of the most popular martyrs of Cappadocia and Pontus and their calendrical cycle.Less
This chapter presents an overview of the centrality of the cult of the martyrs in the Christianity of the Cappadocian Fathers. Regardless of social status, all Christians were enthusiastic for the frequent celebrations of the local martyrs, even after the Constantinian settlement. The chapter gives a detailed analysis of the ways in which the Cappadocian Fathers not only were personally devoted to the martyrs but also regularized the cults through close attention to the the panegyris, the festival for the martyr. Their writings reveal the rituals of the martyr panegyris and the laity’s behavior, expectations, and attitudes. The chapter examines how rudimentary the cult of the martyrs was for the Cappadocians as bishops: as organizational principle, as a dominant hermeneutic of Scripture, as promoter of doctrine, as catechetical example for liturgy. The chapter ends with the analysis of the most popular martyrs of Cappadocia and Pontus and their calendrical cycle.
Steven A. Epstein
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781501700507
- eISBN:
- 9781501703614
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501700507.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter demonstrates how Jacopo de Varagine drew upon a complex collection of sources in compiling and writing his book of saints' lives and other feasts of the liturgical calendar. In learning ...
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This chapter demonstrates how Jacopo de Varagine drew upon a complex collection of sources in compiling and writing his book of saints' lives and other feasts of the liturgical calendar. In learning about how Jacopo's mind worked, the chapter extracts what he reprocessed from the writings of others, such as Giovanni Paolo Maggioni, Bartholomew of Trent, and Alain Boureau, as well as what was truly original about his book. It focuses on the themes—feasts and sanctity, suicide and martyrdom, Jews and pagans—Jacopo chose to emphasize in the entries, giving him the widest scope for originality. This conception of human and sacred history informed his thinking about topics as diverse as the cult of the saints, natural disasters, ancient Rome and the end of pagan rites, and family life.Less
This chapter demonstrates how Jacopo de Varagine drew upon a complex collection of sources in compiling and writing his book of saints' lives and other feasts of the liturgical calendar. In learning about how Jacopo's mind worked, the chapter extracts what he reprocessed from the writings of others, such as Giovanni Paolo Maggioni, Bartholomew of Trent, and Alain Boureau, as well as what was truly original about his book. It focuses on the themes—feasts and sanctity, suicide and martyrdom, Jews and pagans—Jacopo chose to emphasize in the entries, giving him the widest scope for originality. This conception of human and sacred history informed his thinking about topics as diverse as the cult of the saints, natural disasters, ancient Rome and the end of pagan rites, and family life.
Daniel R. Melamed
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- April 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190881054
- eISBN:
- 9780190882570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190881054.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio has six parts that Bach performed on six days from Christmas to Epiphany. We usually experience it as a unified work, and Bach considered it one, but in ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio has six parts that Bach performed on six days from Christmas to Epiphany. We usually experience it as a unified work, and Bach considered it one, but in some ways, its designation as a single oratorio was more conceptual than real. Our best tool for understanding the Oratorio’s original context might be a calendar. The work’s place in the church year helps us understand its construction and scoring, stimulates our thinking about the independence of its parts, and aids in examining the musical elements that make it a unified work. Despite modern attempts to invent a tradition of multiday Christmas pieces stretching back to the seventeenth century, there was no such tradition. Bach’s model was a central German practice of Passion settings spread over days or weeks. Bach could not present a Passion this way, but that was evidently his inspiration for the Christmas Oratorio.Less
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio has six parts that Bach performed on six days from Christmas to Epiphany. We usually experience it as a unified work, and Bach considered it one, but in some ways, its designation as a single oratorio was more conceptual than real. Our best tool for understanding the Oratorio’s original context might be a calendar. The work’s place in the church year helps us understand its construction and scoring, stimulates our thinking about the independence of its parts, and aids in examining the musical elements that make it a unified work. Despite modern attempts to invent a tradition of multiday Christmas pieces stretching back to the seventeenth century, there was no such tradition. Bach’s model was a central German practice of Passion settings spread over days or weeks. Bach could not present a Passion this way, but that was evidently his inspiration for the Christmas Oratorio.
Daniella Talmon-Heller
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474460965
- eISBN:
- 9781474480772
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460965.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Focusing on the construction of sanctity and its manifestations in individual devotions, formal ceremonies and communal rites, this book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the ...
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Focusing on the construction of sanctity and its manifestations in individual devotions, formal ceremonies and communal rites, this book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates Islamic thinking about and practice in sacred places and times through the detailed research of two contested case-studies: the shrine(s) in honour of the head of al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAli, and the (arguably) holy month of Rajab. The narrative spans the formative period of Islam until the late Mamluk period, attuned to changing political contexts and sectarian affiliations, and to the input of the social sciences and the study of religion. The juxtaposition of sacred place and time reveals that the two expanses were regarded as complementary venues for similar religious devotions, and imagined by a common vocabulary.Less
Focusing on the construction of sanctity and its manifestations in individual devotions, formal ceremonies and communal rites, this book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates Islamic thinking about and practice in sacred places and times through the detailed research of two contested case-studies: the shrine(s) in honour of the head of al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAli, and the (arguably) holy month of Rajab. The narrative spans the formative period of Islam until the late Mamluk period, attuned to changing political contexts and sectarian affiliations, and to the input of the social sciences and the study of religion. The juxtaposition of sacred place and time reveals that the two expanses were regarded as complementary venues for similar religious devotions, and imagined by a common vocabulary.
Salvatore D. S. Musumeci
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231149976
- eISBN:
- 9780231520799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231149976.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter examines the book of purchases kept by Santa Trinità's camerlengo, or fiscal administrator, Dom Lorenzo di Guidotto Martini, to better understand the alimentary habits and consumption ...
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This chapter examines the book of purchases kept by Santa Trinità's camerlengo, or fiscal administrator, Dom Lorenzo di Guidotto Martini, to better understand the alimentary habits and consumption patterns of the monastery of Santa Trinità. Through the use of intermediaries like lay brothers and hired servants, the monks were able to maintain their strict enclosure, while easily and affordably provisioning their monastery to support the full-time congregation as well as visiting guests and friends. Dom Lorenzo's record reveals the dependence of monks on the markets and shops of Florence. The monks ate the same food as their secular Florentine counterparts, since the neighboring families shopped at the same markets and vendors that they frequented. However, they honored the Rule of Saint Benedict that regulated life at Santa Trinità by eating these same foodstuffs in a different manner from their neighbors, and by using appropriate foods at the correct times of the year according to the liturgical calendar.Less
This chapter examines the book of purchases kept by Santa Trinità's camerlengo, or fiscal administrator, Dom Lorenzo di Guidotto Martini, to better understand the alimentary habits and consumption patterns of the monastery of Santa Trinità. Through the use of intermediaries like lay brothers and hired servants, the monks were able to maintain their strict enclosure, while easily and affordably provisioning their monastery to support the full-time congregation as well as visiting guests and friends. Dom Lorenzo's record reveals the dependence of monks on the markets and shops of Florence. The monks ate the same food as their secular Florentine counterparts, since the neighboring families shopped at the same markets and vendors that they frequented. However, they honored the Rule of Saint Benedict that regulated life at Santa Trinità by eating these same foodstuffs in a different manner from their neighbors, and by using appropriate foods at the correct times of the year according to the liturgical calendar.
David L. Eastman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198767183
- eISBN:
- 9780191821363
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198767183.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies, History of Christianity
There was no single tradition about the deaths of Peter and Paul. Instead, there existed a cluster of traditions with some overlap on basic points, but much variety on other details. This chapter ...
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There was no single tradition about the deaths of Peter and Paul. Instead, there existed a cluster of traditions with some overlap on basic points, but much variety on other details. This chapter explores the options presented in attempting to date the deaths. The first part of the chapter treats the question of the date(s) of the deaths of Peter and Paul. It argues that the liturgical date of June 29 appears to control the narratives of many accounts and thus represents a functional and literary date more than an historical one. The second part of the chapter examines reckonings of the year(s) of the martyrdoms. Some authors describe the events at an undetermined time during Nero’s reign, while others provide a specific year—and the years provided vary by more than a decade.Less
There was no single tradition about the deaths of Peter and Paul. Instead, there existed a cluster of traditions with some overlap on basic points, but much variety on other details. This chapter explores the options presented in attempting to date the deaths. The first part of the chapter treats the question of the date(s) of the deaths of Peter and Paul. It argues that the liturgical date of June 29 appears to control the narratives of many accounts and thus represents a functional and literary date more than an historical one. The second part of the chapter examines reckonings of the year(s) of the martyrdoms. Some authors describe the events at an undetermined time during Nero’s reign, while others provide a specific year—and the years provided vary by more than a decade.
Elizabeth Freeman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277513
- eISBN:
- 9780823280483
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277513.003.0018
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This afterword uses the Episcopalian Church’s Gody Play story “The Circle of Time” to survey the essays in the volume. It discusses the color scheme for time in Anglican theology, linking the ...
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This afterword uses the Episcopalian Church’s Gody Play story “The Circle of Time” to survey the essays in the volume. It discusses the color scheme for time in Anglican theology, linking the synaesthesia of temporalized hues to queer eroticism and focusing especially on the red “heat” of Pentecost, incarnation of the Holy Spirit. Using the work of José Esteban Muñoz, the essay links the incarnational to the performative in queer theory, suggesting that the transmittal of affect may be divine in the theological sense, whether or not participants believe in God. It asks whether the incarnational, the performative, and the queer might be linked by transfers of being and becoming of the sort epitomized by the Pentecostal Holy Spirit and described in many of the essays.Less
This afterword uses the Episcopalian Church’s Gody Play story “The Circle of Time” to survey the essays in the volume. It discusses the color scheme for time in Anglican theology, linking the synaesthesia of temporalized hues to queer eroticism and focusing especially on the red “heat” of Pentecost, incarnation of the Holy Spirit. Using the work of José Esteban Muñoz, the essay links the incarnational to the performative in queer theory, suggesting that the transmittal of affect may be divine in the theological sense, whether or not participants believe in God. It asks whether the incarnational, the performative, and the queer might be linked by transfers of being and becoming of the sort epitomized by the Pentecostal Holy Spirit and described in many of the essays.
Luisa Nardini
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- November 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197514139
- eISBN:
- 9780197514160
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197514139.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Part III discusses prosulas according to their placement in the liturgical calendar. It is structured into three chapters, the first providing a general discussion of prosulas as glosses and a ...
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Part III discusses prosulas according to their placement in the liturgical calendar. It is structured into three chapters, the first providing a general discussion of prosulas as glosses and a complete liturgical table of all Beneventan prosulas, the second examining the prosulas of the Temporal (the feasts connected with the life and mission of Jesus), and the third analyzing those of the Sanctoral (the feasts of the Saints). Prosulas of the Temporal were particularly abundant in manuscripts copied in female establishments, possibly as a reflection of the special devotion to Jesus as the nuns’ spiritual spouse; those of the Sanctoral tend to favor saints from Africa or West Asia, the perceived cradles of Christianity, to emphasize the prestige of the local Church.Less
Part III discusses prosulas according to their placement in the liturgical calendar. It is structured into three chapters, the first providing a general discussion of prosulas as glosses and a complete liturgical table of all Beneventan prosulas, the second examining the prosulas of the Temporal (the feasts connected with the life and mission of Jesus), and the third analyzing those of the Sanctoral (the feasts of the Saints). Prosulas of the Temporal were particularly abundant in manuscripts copied in female establishments, possibly as a reflection of the special devotion to Jesus as the nuns’ spiritual spouse; those of the Sanctoral tend to favor saints from Africa or West Asia, the perceived cradles of Christianity, to emphasize the prestige of the local Church.
Steven A. Epstein
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781501700507
- eISBN:
- 9781501703614
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501700507.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter summarizes Jacopo de Varagine's late habits of thought by examining the Marian Sermons—a collection of 161 model exegetical sermons of varying lengths. His “late style” is a return to ...
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This chapter summarizes Jacopo de Varagine's late habits of thought by examining the Marian Sermons—a collection of 161 model exegetical sermons of varying lengths. His “late style” is a return to his roots, model sermons, with the benefit of a lifetime of experience as a reader and writer. As Jacopo chose his themes, he showed what he valued about religious imagery. Unlike in his previous sermons where the topics suggested themselves (saints' days) or were dictated by the demands of the liturgical calendar, Jacopo was in theological and artistic control of the Marian sermons. Aside from the creative labor of gathering the wisdom of his time to help preachers, Jacopo also showed enough originality to justify attention to himself. Jacopo's primary audience absorbed his thought, and through them his influence helped shape the development of Christianity.Less
This chapter summarizes Jacopo de Varagine's late habits of thought by examining the Marian Sermons—a collection of 161 model exegetical sermons of varying lengths. His “late style” is a return to his roots, model sermons, with the benefit of a lifetime of experience as a reader and writer. As Jacopo chose his themes, he showed what he valued about religious imagery. Unlike in his previous sermons where the topics suggested themselves (saints' days) or were dictated by the demands of the liturgical calendar, Jacopo was in theological and artistic control of the Marian sermons. Aside from the creative labor of gathering the wisdom of his time to help preachers, Jacopo also showed enough originality to justify attention to himself. Jacopo's primary audience absorbed his thought, and through them his influence helped shape the development of Christianity.