A Byzantine Monastic Office, A.D. 1105

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This book centers on a Greek text that used to be likely compiled in Constantinople, in 1105, to be used in one of the vital monasteries located there. The book consists of a liturgical psalter, containing the fixed structure (the strange) in both the Greek original and in English translation, in addition to a description of the hours themselves. The extensive observation explains the development of the divine office, and the particular history of the translated manuscript, whilst brief notes clarify and provide an explanation for, in a way suitable for non-liturgists, the more-technical aspects of the divine office.

Based on a single dated manuscript, the book presents the first, full example of the daily structure of monastic hours as they were celebrated at a time when services and products had reached a degree of maturity. The book, by presenting the strange of the office, compliments up to date work on the propers of the office, and thus helps to complete our picture of the medieval monastic office in Byzantium.

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