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You might try the following, John. Despite its catchy title (for an
academic book) it's the work of one of the major Byzantine liturgists alive
today..
Robert Taft, S.J: The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: The
Origins of the Divine Office and Its Meaning for Today
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] Breviaries and Noted Breviaries
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> 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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