Blessing the world

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"In this book, Derek A. Rivard studies liturgical blessing and its role in the religious life of Christians during the central and later Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the blessings of the Franco-Roman liturgical tradition from the tenth to late thirteenth centuries. Through a careful and extensive study of more than ninety such blessings, many of them translated for the first time and accessible to a readership beyond specialists in medieval liturgy, the author argues that medieval blessings were composed as a direct response to the needs, anxieties, beliefs, and fears of the laity, and therefore these texts represent a rich and largely untapped source for the study of lay piety and of ritual in medieval Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: History,  Benediction,  Liturgics,  Middle Ages, 600-1500,  Piety,  11.52 medieval Christianity,  Vroomheid,  Volksfrömmigkeit,  Zegeningen,  Segen,  Frömmigkeit,  Liturgie,  Holiness,  History of doctrines

Times: Middle Ages, 600-1500