The Medieval Dominicans: Books, Buildings, Music, and Liturgy (Medieval Monastic Studies, 7)

The Order of Preachers has famously bred some of the leading intellectual lights of the Middle Ages. While Dominican achievements in theology, philosophy, languages, law, and sciences have attracted much scholarly interest, their significant engagement with liturgy, the visual arts, and music remains relatively unexplored. These aspects and their manifold interconnections form the focal point of this interdisciplinary volume. The different chapters examine how early Dominicans positioned themselves and interacted with their local communities, where they drew their influences from, and what impact the new Order had on various aspects of medieval life. The contributors to this volume address issues as diverse as the making and illustrating of books, services for a king, the disposition of liturgical space, the creation of new liturgies, and a Dominican-made music treatise. In doing so, they seek to shed light on the actions and interactions of medieval Dominicans in the first centuries of the Order's existence. This international and interdisciplinary collection discusses a wide range of aspects relating to the material and devotional culture of the Dominican Order across medieval Europe.00The Order of Preachers has famously bred some of the leading intellectual lights of the Middle Ages. While Dominican achievements in theology, philosophy, languages, law, and sciences have attracted much scholarly interest, their significant engagement with liturgy, the visual arts, and music remains relatively unexplored. These aspects and their manifold interconnections form the focal point of this interdisciplinary volume.00The different chapters examine how early Dominicans positioned themselves and interacted with their local communities, where they drew their influences from, and what impact the new Order had on various aspects of medieval life. The contributors to this volume address issues as diverse as the making and illustrating of books, services for a king, the disposition of liturgical space, the creation of new liturgies, and a Dominican-made music treatise. In doing so, they seek to shed light on the actions and interactions of medieval Dominicans in the first centuries of the Order?s existence."-- Résumé de l'éditeur Front Matter 1 Eleanor J. Giraud and Christian Thomas Leitmeir. Introduction 13 Richard Rouse and Mary Rouse. The Impact of the Dominicans on Books at the University of Paris, 1217–1350 31 Laura Albiero. The Spread and Circulation of the Dominican Pocket Breviary 51 Alison Stones. Illustrated Dominican Books in France, 1221–1350 73 Panayota Volti. The Artistic and Spiritual Impact of the Dominicans in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages 109 Haude Morvan. The Preachers and the Evolution of Liturgical Space in Italy, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries 135 Emily Guerry. ‘A Path Prepared for Them by the Lord’ 167 M. Michèle Mulchahey. Thomas Aquinas, Dominican Theology, and the Feast of Corpus Christi 213 Barbara R. Walters. Reading Eschatology in theFeast of Corpus Christi 255 Innocent Smith. The Orations of the Medieval Dominican Liturgy 285 Eleanor J. Giraud. Dominican Mass Books before Humbert of Romans 299 Innocent Smith. ‘Lest the Sisters Lose Devotion’ 321 Christian Thomas Leitmeir. Compilation and Adaptation 335 Błażej Matusiak. Jerome of Moravia’s Cantor 365 Back Matter 391