Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity Fécamp (Paperback Book)

Name: Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity Fécamp (Paperback Book)
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The abbey of F\u00E9camp, reformed in the early years of the eleventh century by William of Volpiano, abbot of St-B\u00E9nigne at Dijon, was a key institution in the development of Norman monasticism in the middle ages. As one of the most energetic monastic reformers of his time, William was noted for the attention he paid to the liturgy of the many abbeys he superintended, and his liturgical cursus was influential in English and continental monastic houses. The F\u00E9camp Ordinal, edited here from a manuscript of the early thirteenth century, but transmitting the liturgy observed in the abbey some two centuries earlier, is the first complete source of William's liturgical work to be printed. It is expanded by readings from complementary F\u00E9camp service books, creating a text which gives a particularly\n\nOrdinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity F\u00E9camp\n(Fecamp, Musee de la Benedictine, MS 186), I [containing Part I]\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is;