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Hello Cecilia,
My feeling is that it isn't so much "Officium de Resurrectione" as "officium de resurrectione." Although you are right that the more official word was Pascha, liturgical commentators like Amalarius of Metz (admittedly writing before Raymond) often use phrases like "the day of our Lord's resurrection" or "between the time of Christ's passion and the time of his resurrection" or simply "resurrection Sunday." For example, the title of the seventh chapter of Book 1 of Amalarius's Liber Officialis is "De varietatibus officiorum per diem, usque in resurrectione Domini" (this chapter is largely about Lent).
It isn't so far from there to a phrase like "the office of [Christ's] resurrection."
I mostly know the Carolingian material, however, and perhaps something changed by Raymond's time...Also, I do believe that there is an "Office of the Resurrection" in Byzantine usage, but perhaps others know about this?
Stephen
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Cecilia Gaposchkin <
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture Doctissimi,
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> I am reading Raymond of Aguiliers, who tells me that, upon capturing
> Jerusalem (on July 15), that "in hac die cantavimus officium de
> Resurrectione, quia in hac die ille qui sua virtute a mortuis
> resurrexit, per gratiam suam nos resuscitavit."
>
> I presume the "officium de Resurrectione" is the Liturgy for Easter?
> Is this the common medieval way of referring to Easter? I would have
> expected paschalis or the like, but am not familiar with this
> language. Want to be sure.
>
> Thanks, as ever,
> cecilia
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