medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Revd Gordon Plumb wrote:
>
> I am in the process of a move and all my liturgical books are in
> boxes in the garage pending erection of shelving ( out of my hands
> unfortunately!), but have you looked in the volume of the edition of the
> Hyde Abbey Breviary by J B L Tolhurst - recently reissued as a separate
> volume - on Monastic Breviaries, which provides a wide-ranging examination
> of monastric breviaries. Pub by Henry Bradshaw Society.
It doesn't help. It is entitled "Introduction to the English Monastic [i.e.
Benedictine] Breviaries", but in reality it is an introduction to the
monastic Office as contained in those breviaries - which isn't really the
same thing. It doesn't seem to mention the secular breviary, and treats
the origin of the monastic breviary unproblematically as being for the use
of individual religious travelling away from their monastery. This is
precisely the position that van Dijk & Hazelden Walker reject.
> Van Dijk & Hazelden Walker is good isn't it!
It's a tour-de-force, but I am mildly sceptical. The argument is so
elaborate that I am not convinced that the individual elements couldn't be
re-assembled in a different order. Which is why I am anxious to learn if
the argument has been subsequently refined, revised, modified, rejected or
refuted - or just accepted uncritically, of course.
John Briggs
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