Liturgy and episcopal authority. The Evidence of the Noyon Sacramentary (London, British Library, Additional MS 82956, formerly Phillipps MS 3340)
Hamilton, S
Date: 25 September 2019
Article
Journal
The Medieval Low Countries
Publisher
Brepols
Abstract
The liturgical evidence for bishops remains underexplored. What work there is tends to focus
on those rites reserved to the bishop collected in pontificals and therefore ignores the
potential of more mundane books in daily use. This case study of a sacramentary used by the
bishop of Noyon in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries ...
The liturgical evidence for bishops remains underexplored. What work there is tends to focus
on those rites reserved to the bishop collected in pontificals and therefore ignores the
potential of more mundane books in daily use. This case study of a sacramentary used by the
bishop of Noyon in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries reveals, through a comparison
with similar materials produced for contemporary communities within northern France, the
ways in which the bishop’s roles in the secular world were reflected in minor changes made
to the liturgy in use in one of his churches. It thus casts fresh light on the less well-known see
of Noyon, and at the same time demonstrates the importance of incorporating such mundane
materials into modern studies of episcopacy in this period.
History
Collections of Former Colleges
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