The Feast of Corpus Christi
562 pages | 7 x 10 | 2006
ISBN 978-0-271-02924-5 | cloth: $77.00 sh
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The feast of Corpus Christi, one of the most solemn feasts of the Latin Church, can be traced to the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and its resolution of disputes over the nature of the Eucharist. The feast was first celebrated in Liège in 1246, thanks largely to the efforts of a religious woman, Juliana of Mont Cornillon, who not only popularized the feast but also wrote key elements of an original office.
This volume presents for the first time a complete set of source materials germane to the study of the feast of Corpus Christi. In addition to the multiple versions of the original Latin liturgy as well as a set of poems in Old French and their English translations, the book includes complete transcriptions of the music associated with the feast. An introductory essay lays out the historical context for understanding the initiation and reception of the feast.
BarbaraR. Walters is Associate Professor of Sociology at The City Universityof New York, Kingsborough Community College and SPS, UniversityCenter.
Vincent Corrigan is Professor of Musicology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface
PART I: INTRODUCTION
THE FEAST AND ITS FOUNDER
by Barbara R. Walters
The Vita of Juliana of Mont Cornillon
Realizing Juliana of Mont Cornillon
Juliana of Mont Cornillon as Prophetess
Diffusion of the Feast through Social Networks
Thirteenth-Century Liege
The Community of Women
Textual Communities and Texts
PART II: MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: SOURCES
INTRODUCTION TO THE LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS by Barbara R. Walters
BNF 755 and Offices A, B, and C
Chronological Ordering of the Three Offices and
the Papal Bull Transiturus
Gy and Zawilla’s Analyses
The New Critical Editions
CRITICAL EDITIONS OF THE LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS by Vincent Corrigan
The Manuscripts
Indices
Editions
The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands, MS 70.E.4
Prague, Abbey of Strahov, MS D.E.I.7
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 1143
Graz, Universitäts Bibliothek, MS 134
Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, 139
Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library,
Special Collections, Vault 091 R263 1343
Edinburgh University Library, MS 211.iv
(Inchcolm Antiphonary)
PART III: POEMS OF THE MOSAN PSALTERS
INTRODUCTION TO THE MOSAN PSALTERS
by Barbara R. Walters
CRITICAL EDITION OF THE POEMS OF THE MOSAN PSALTERS
by Peter T. Ricketts
Bibliography
Manuscripts
Published Sources
Index