Dear sapientes:
I have been in search of the liturgy employed to consecrate a
bishop in medieval England, in the thirteenth century. So far, I
have wondered through Maskell's account of medieval English
liturgy, but the closest I got was an ordo for an episcopal mass
from the Sarum rite. Most of the literature on English medieval
liturgy seems to focus on the eucharist or the other sacraments
and some sacramentals. I do have an article from the RHE about
the origins of episcopal consecration, but I am looking for texts and
studies related to thirteenth century England.
I have also wandered through various liturgical bibliographies (Pfaff,
etc), but it seems what piques most people's attentions is the
election of bishops (procedure and liturgy), as if consecration is the
boring aftermath. Well maybe it was, but I would certainly like to
know what this boring stuff looked like, so if our liturgiologists could
crank up their bibliographies, and send some suggestions, I would
be most grateful.
Cheers
Jim
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Dr James R Ginther
Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
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