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Article: The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages: Methodology and Source Studies, Regional Developments, Hagiography.(Review) (book review)
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- January 1, 2001
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Fassler, Margot E., and Rebecca A. Baltzer, eds. The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages: Methodology and Source Studies, Regional Developments, Hagiography Written in Honor of Professor Ruth Steiner New York: Oxford University Press 632 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-19-512453-7 Publication Date: August 2000
David Knowles once noted, "Those wholly unfamiliar with the monastic life are perhaps slow to allow for the moulding influence, upon minds and characters attuned to them, of the liturgical texts with their accompaniment of chant and ceremony." The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages is an effort to make the beauties and complexities of the daily cycle of prayer ...