TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Kate H.
TI  - Late Anglo-Saxon Prayer in Practice: Before the Books of Hours 
T2  - Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center
SN  - 9781580443616
AV  - BV207 .T46 2020
U1  - 242.09420902 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Kalamazoo, MI
PB  - Medieval Institute Publications
KW  - Prayer
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - England
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Angelsachsen
KW  - Gebet
KW  - Liturgie
KW  - Medizin
KW  - Religion
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anglo-Saxon
KW  - Liturgy
KW  - Lived Religion
KW  - Medicine
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of Tables --; Introduction and Methodology --; 1. Prayers to the Trinity and Saints --; 2. Praying with the Hours and Psalms --; 3. Prayers to the Holy Cross --; 4. Prayers of Protection and Healing --; 5. Prayers of Confession and Penitence --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index of Prayers --; General Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This monograph examines Anglo-Saxon prayer outside of the communal liturgy. With a particular emphasis on its practical aspects, it considers how small groups of prayers were elaborated into complex programs for personal devotion, resulting in the forerunners of the Special Offices. With examples being taken chiefly from major eleventh-century collections of prayers, liturgy and medical remedies, the methodologies of Anglo-Saxon compilers are examined, followed by five chapters on specialist kinds of prayer: to the Trinity and saints, for liturgical feasts and the canonical hours, to the Holy Cross, for protection and healing, and confessions. Analyzing prayer in a wide range of different situations, this book argues that Anglo-Saxon manuscripts may have included far more private offices than have so far been recognized, if we see them for what they were
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661958
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110661958
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110661958/original
ER  -