
Title Details
280 Pages
23.4 x 15.6 cm
12 b/w illus.
Series: Medievalism
Series Vol. Number:
26
Imprint: Boydell Press
Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England
Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book
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In 1879, Canon Thomas Frederick Simmons edited the late medieval poem now known as The Lay Folks' Mass Book creating what remains the standard edition of the text. This volume shows how Simmons' interest in the text was related profoundly to contemporary debates about worship in the Church of England, and how he used his medievalist researches as the basis for the most important attempt at Prayer Book revision between the Reformation and the twentieth century.
Preface
Introduction: Imagining the Past
1.Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book
2.Re-imagining Medieval Devotion: Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of the English Church
3.Simmons and the Early English Text Society
4.Simmons as Editor: The Philologist
5. Simmons as Editor: The Liturgist
6. Simmons as Parish Priest, and Liturgical Reform in the Victorian Church of England
7.The Afterlives of the Lay Folks' Mass Book
Conclusion: Liturgical Moments in Time
Plates
Appendix IThe Lay Folks' Mass Book: Text and Translation
Appendix IIThe Lay Folks' Mass Book and the Sarum Rite
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Imagining the Past
1.Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book
2.Re-imagining Medieval Devotion: Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of the English Church
3.Simmons and the Early English Text Society
4.Simmons as Editor: The Philologist
5. Simmons as Editor: The Liturgist
6. Simmons as Parish Priest, and Liturgical Reform in the Victorian Church of England
7.The Afterlives of the Lay Folks' Mass Book
Conclusion: Liturgical Moments in Time
Plates
Appendix IThe Lay Folks' Mass Book: Text and Translation
Appendix IIThe Lay Folks' Mass Book and the Sarum Rite
Bibliography
Index
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Title Details
280 Pages
2.34 x 1.56 cm
12 b/w illus.
Series: Medievalism
Series Vol. Number:
26
Imprint: Boydell Press