Dear Jim,
Even if there's nothing about this in the first edition of Pfaff's
bibliography, he's still working on medieval English liturgies and is the
most knowledgeable person I know in this area. If you want to ask him
directly, I believe his email address is [log in to unmask] .
Sherry Reames (who has no suggestions of her own on consecration)
At 05:53 PM 11/27/2000 GMT, you wrote:
>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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>University of Leeds
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