Memorial Ritual and the Writing of History

Nils Holger Petersen

Memorial Ritual and the Writing of History

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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to discuss the litirgical use of saints' legends in saints' offices as a particular way of producing "sacred history," focusing on the way such texts were integrated into the Nocturns (of Matins) in a saint's office. In this context, I am primarily concerned not with the saints' legends as such but rather with the mechanisms involved in the liturgical appropriation of a saint's narrative, which, of course, is related to the way a saint's legend would often be composed: as a text designed to be read in a saint's office.
I give an example of hos the procedure of inscribing a saint into the universal liturgical celebration of God's sacred history with humans functioned in practice by way of a brief discussion of one section from the Office of Saint Cnut lavard, a Danish princely saint who was killed in 1131 and was canonised in 1169 by Pope Alexander III.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Historical and Intellectual Culture in the Long Twelfth Century : The Scandinavian Connection
Redaktører	Mia Münster-Swendsen, Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn
Antal sider	23
Udgivelsessted	Toronto and Durham
Forlag	Ponticical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publikationsdato	2016
Sider	166 - 188
ISBN (Trykt)	978-0-88844-864-4
Status	Udgivet - 2016

Emneord

Det Teologiske Fakultet
medieval liturgy
sacred history
saint's cult
Det Humanistiske Fakultet
historiography
medieval chant

Citationsformater

Memorial Ritual and the Writing of History. / Petersen, Nils Holger.

Historical and Intellectual Culture in the Long Twelfth Century: The Scandinavian Connection. red. / Mia Münster-Swendsen; Thomas Heebøll-Holm; Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn. Toronto and Durham : Ponticical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016. s. 166 - 188.

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