Overview

This volume contains a collection of essays in honour of the late Professor of Comparative Literature, C Clifford Flanigan, who died suddenly in 1993 at the age of 52. The scholarship of this book constitutes an example of the interdisciplinary approach to the study of ecclesiastical history which is the aim of the newly established Centre for Christianity and the Arts at the Theological Faculty at the University of Copenhagen.

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Author:   Eva Louise Lillie ,  Nils Holger Petersen ,  Nils Holger Petersen
Publisher:   Museum Tusculanum Press
Imprint:   Museum Tusculanum Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9788772893617

ISBN 10:   8772893613
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   11 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Introduction; Medieval liturgy and the arts -- Visitatio Sepulchri as paradigm; Dynamic qualities in the medieval office; The meaning and the function of the Introit; Length and festivity -- on some prolongation techniques in Byzantine chant; Stational liturgy and processional antiphons in the Ambrosian rite; Supera agalmata -- angels and the celestial hierarchy in sequences and tropes; Beata Maria semper virgo in Piacenza, Biblioteca Capitulare c.65; Liturgy as a theological place -- possibilities and limitations in interpreting liturgical texts as seen in the Office of the Dead; Liturgical representation and late medieval piety; O vos omnes qui transitis per viam... the quotation from the Lamentations 1, 12 in Danish medieval visual art; On the connection between medieval wooden sculpture and murals in Scanian churches.

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Nils Holger Petersen is associate professor and appointed centre leader at the Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

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