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.
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Historical and Intellectual Culture in the Long Twelfth Century : The Scandinavian Connection |
| Editors | Mia Münster-Swendsen, Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Place of Publication | Toronto and Durham |
| Publisher | Ponticical Institute of Mediaeval Studies |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Pages | 166 - 188 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-88844-864-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Faculty of Theology
- Faculty of Humanities