medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Many thanks for all these suggestions - they are most helpful, and are
making things a lot clearer. Obviously, I should have said that I was using
the bibliography in Harper's "Forms and Orders" as a starting point, but was
a bit nonplussed on how to proceed. I think I was looking for a more
detailed guide than Harper gives, and I think that is what you are
providing. I was baffled that he didn't list many modern editions (by
modern I mean the second half of the twentieth century) or guides, but it
has become obvious that they don't really exist. So it is fair enough that
he concentrates on the great work done in the second half of the nineteenth
century and at the beginning of the twentieth. But I was somewhat thrown by
him being selective in what he describes - he doesn't give any reference to
Maskell, for example. It is now clear, however, that what he does say needs
to be studied very carefully. I am still a bit baffled by the diffuse
publishing history for all that C19 work - why are editions distributed
between the Surtees Society and the Henry Bradshaw Society, for example?
What provoked all this was reluctantly passing up the opportunity to buy an
overpriced copy of Frere's "Use of Sarum". I am sure that I shall continue
to regret this, but think I really need to start at the other end (so to
speak) with something like Tolhurst, or Procter and Wordsworth, and Frere
and Brown.
I suppose I am somewhat spoilt by my experience of Nick Sandon's excellent
"Use of Salisbury". Although this is primarily an edition of the chant, and
doesn't give variant readings, it is a critical edition based on nine
sources (seven manuscript and two printed) with translated rubrics.
Needless to say, work has proceeded slowly, and he has only completed the
Temporale for the Proper of the Mass.
John Briggs
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