This lovely volume presents a group of 11 articles and case studies describing the multiple meanings and uses of liturgical texts from the Carolingian period into the twelfth century. Notable is the f
Medieval liturgy is a study that even medievalists tend to avoid as uninspiring. Iversen (Institute for Classical Languages, Stockholm University) challenges that idea in her celebration of the tropes
With the triumph of the codex, medieval literature became more deeply hermeneutic in character. A vast range of texts, in various languages and genres, were not only copied with the commentaries and g
