Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages, C.200 C.1150
Cramer, Peter / Carpenter, Christine / Mckitterick, Rosamond
The liturgy of the medieval church has been little studied in its relation to medieval thought and society. It has often been taken for granted that the Latin liturgy was understood by the priest, but to his congregation was only a spectacle of authority. This book begins with the hypothesis that the liturgy was, in some senses, understood by its congregations, and it attempts to discover what this understanding might have been. Through studie...