medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
If Niall would get in touch with me direct, I have a nice chart showing
exactly this from a French language history of the Swiss Cistercian Abbey of
Hauterive. I could send it to him as an attachment.
Brenda.
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Medieval hours
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> First of all, the Day Hours start with Lauds, but that quite often runs on
> immediately from Matins (which is the night Office), so it is better to
> start with Prime. The timing of the hours is controversial, but it best
to
> bear in mind the medieval concept of "unequal hours" - the day (daylight)
is
> divided into 12, so the length of the hour will vary throughout the year.
> Prime would probably have been after dawn, and Compline after sunset.
>
> John Briggs
>
> Atkinson, Niall wrote:
> >
> > I am having trouble figuring out gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum's
> > explanation of the canonical hours in his book, "History of the Hour"
> > and I was hoping that someone might be able to save me. I am
> > interested in how the hours of daylight are divided up and how they
> > slide around between seasons and across time.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the seven hours are:
> > Matins
> > Prime
> > Terce
> > Sext
> > None
> > Vespers
> > Compline
> >
> > Matins seems to designate sunrise, Compline, sundown. Now if the day
> > were exactly 12 hours long, then Sext would be midday. Would the
> > other hours be spaced, in general, equally apart from each other? I
> > know that None shifted to a time earlier in the day, along with
> > Vespers, but at any give time of the year, would Prime have been 3
> > hour-units after matins? Dohrn van-Rossum mentions that Matins is
> > roughly sunrise, but then states that the Prime hour could be chanted
> > just before or after sunrise.
> > As well, how does the night mass in the monastery, just after
> > midnight, relate to these temporal divisions?
> >
> > As well, could the working day, which would normally begin at sunrise,
> > be marked by the bell of Matins, or Prime, or both, depending on the
> > locality? In general, did these seven hours define the time of
> > daylight?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Niall Atkinson
> >
> > Niall Atkinson
> > Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellow
> > Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
> > via Giuseppe Giusti 44
> > I - 50121 Firenze
> >
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