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(More customer reviews)I recently purchased this book and would like to share that this book makes for an excellent introduction cum scholarly work on a missal that reveals a great deal of late 7th/8th century monastic life. The book comprises of several papers from a conference held on the Continent and each paper explores a certain aspect of the missal and its relation to early medieval Gaul. As usual, Cambridge lives up to its excating standards in research. I believe that this is the only reference work on the Bobbio missal. Not to be missed by scholars of liturgical materials.
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Copied in southeastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century, the Bobbio Missal is one of the most important liturgical manuscripts from that period. It is a unique combination of lectionary and sacramentary, to which much canonical and non-canonical material was added. The extent of specialized knowledge, provided by the scholars writing for this book, contributes considerably to our understanding of this complex manuscript, as well as of the broader field of early medieval liturgy and religious culture which it bears witness to.
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