1st Edition
Clerics in the Early Middle Ages Hierarchy and Image
By Roger E. Reynolds
Copyright 1999
346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume covers two closely related themes. Essays in the first section deal with the varieties of clerics and their hierarchical arrangements in the churches of western Europe in the early Middle Ages, the formative period in which the ordering of clerics in the Western Church evolved. The number and numbering of clerics was debated and then established, as was their status as minor and sacred... Read more
Contents: Preface; Clerics in the Early Middle Ages: hierarchies and functions; Christ as cleric: the ordinals of Christ; ’At sixes and sevens’ - and eights and nines: the sacred mathematics of sacred orders in the early Middle Ages; The subdiaconate as a sacred and superior order; Patristic ’Presbyterianism’ in the early medieval theology of sacred orders; Clerical liturgical vestments and liturgical colors in the Middle Ages; The portrait of the ecclesiastical officers in the Raganaldus Sacramentary and its liturgico-canonical significance; Image and text: the liturgy of clerical ordination in early medieval art; Rites and signs of conciliar decisions in the early middle ages; Addenda and corrigenda; General Index; Index of Manuscripts.
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Roger E. Reynolds
