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John F Romano

Benedictine College, History, Department Member

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I am Professor and Chair of History at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. In this capacity I teach all of my college's ancient and medieval offerings. I am currently working on my second monograph, which deals with the concept of liturgical diversity in medieval Europe.
Phone: 913-360-7570
Address: Benedictine College
Department of History
1020 North Second Street
Atchison, KS 66002

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Bibliography: Liturgy and History in the Medieval West (revised)

Bibliography: Liturgy and History in the Medieval West

The roots of this bibliography lie in the bibliography that I once hosted on my personal website,... more The roots of this bibliography lie in the bibliography that I once hosted on my personal website, www.medievalliturgy.com. That was a somewhat idiosyncratic selection of books and articles that had proved useful to me in my own study of medieval liturgy. The list I compiled was never intended to be exhaustive, but it became clear to me that I would be unable to maintain it to my satisfaction given the increasing volume of works that handles medieval liturgy in some fashion and the difficulty I currently have in obtaining some items. Rather than abandon the bibliography entirely, however, I have decided to update it and post it here instead. The selection criteria are those works that significantly engage the interaction between liturgy and history, or those that provide scholarly guidance in bringing to light these links. It makes no claim to be a general bibliography on medieval liturgy, although I am open to suggestions for scholarship that I have overlooked. This bibliography is confined to secondary literature, and even among secondary works, I have not included studies that aim only to describe aspects of the liturgy or those that are very specialized or technical in nature. There are other places to go, for instance, for an in-depth bibliography of liturgical music. Normally I give only works that focus on the Middle Ages (ca. 500 – ca. 1500), Western Europe, and the discipline of history – or else the bibliography would become unwieldly and less useful – but I exceed these boundaries in cases in which entries are of comparative or methodological interest. I have also tended to avoid scholarship that is primarily theological in nature without any attention given to the performance of liturgy. In cases in which they inform a discussion of liturgy, I have also incorporated items that treat ritual. The overriding goal of providing this list is to further the academic discusion of how the worship performed in and around churches affected life outside of them, and if it assists anyone in puzzling out this relationship, the effort exerted to create it will be well worth it.

Rite of the Reconciliation of Penitents

Travelogue of Rabban Sauma as a Source for Thirteenth-Century Liturgy

Baptizing the Romans

Innocent II and the Liturgy

Priests and the Eucharist in the Middle Ages

Joy in Waiting? The History of Gaudete Sunday

THE CEREMONIES OF THE ROMAN PONTIFF: REREADING BENEDICT'S TWELFTH-CENTURY LITURGICAL SCRIPT

A canon of St. Peter's, cantor, and liturgist named Benedict composed an ordo, a liturgical scrip... more A canon of St. Peter's, cantor, and liturgist named Benedict composed an ordo, a liturgical script, ca. 1140–1143. Though long held as a vivid and accurate testimony to contemporary liturgy in Rome, it has more recently been dismissed as a compilation of older sources that reflects an antiquated form of worship. A comparison of the liturgy of the ordo with contemporary sources proves instead that Benedict was an accurate observer of the contemporary liturgy of Rome. When correctly understood, his ordo gives us new information about the pivotal role liturgy played in the papacy of Pope Innocent II (1130–1143). Benedict's ordo preserves some of Innocent II's newly crafted ceremonies, which were propaganda designed to solidify his hold on the papacy. This article further suggests the relevance of recent discussions about medieval ritual for the liturgy and the significance of the liturgy for medieval history.

Announcing the Station in Early-Medieval Rome

Ite potus est: Liturgical Parody and Views of Late-medieval Worship

The Fates of Liturgies: Towards a History of the First Roman Ordo

JULIAN OF VÉZELAY, A TWELFTH-CENTURY CRITIC OF HIS MONASTERY'S WORLDLY SUCCESS

Review of City of Saints

Review of Invention of Peter

Review of England and Rome in the Early Middle Ages

Review of The Virgin of Chartres

Basilica of St John Lateran [Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage]

Liturgy and Pilgrimage [Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage]

Bibliography: Liturgy and History in the Medieval West (revised)

Bibliography: Liturgy and History in the Medieval West

The roots of this bibliography lie in the bibliography that I once hosted on my personal website,... more The roots of this bibliography lie in the bibliography that I once hosted on my personal website, www.medievalliturgy.com. That was a somewhat idiosyncratic selection of books and articles that had proved useful to me in my own study of medieval liturgy. The list I compiled was never intended to be exhaustive, but it became clear to me that I would be unable to maintain it to my satisfaction given the increasing volume of works that handles medieval liturgy in some fashion and the difficulty I currently have in obtaining some items. Rather than abandon the bibliography entirely, however, I have decided to update it and post it here instead. The selection criteria are those works that significantly engage the interaction between liturgy and history, or those that provide scholarly guidance in bringing to light these links. It makes no claim to be a general bibliography on medieval liturgy, although I am open to suggestions for scholarship that I have overlooked. This bibliography is confined to secondary literature, and even among secondary works, I have not included studies that aim only to describe aspects of the liturgy or those that are very specialized or technical in nature. There are other places to go, for instance, for an in-depth bibliography of liturgical music. Normally I give only works that focus on the Middle Ages (ca. 500 – ca. 1500), Western Europe, and the discipline of history – or else the bibliography would become unwieldly and less useful – but I exceed these boundaries in cases in which entries are of comparative or methodological interest. I have also tended to avoid scholarship that is primarily theological in nature without any attention given to the performance of liturgy. In cases in which they inform a discussion of liturgy, I have also incorporated items that treat ritual. The overriding goal of providing this list is to further the academic discusion of how the worship performed in and around churches affected life outside of them, and if it assists anyone in puzzling out this relationship, the effort exerted to create it will be well worth it.

Rite of the Reconciliation of Penitents

Travelogue of Rabban Sauma as a Source for Thirteenth-Century Liturgy

Baptizing the Romans

Innocent II and the Liturgy

Priests and the Eucharist in the Middle Ages

Joy in Waiting? The History of Gaudete Sunday

THE CEREMONIES OF THE ROMAN PONTIFF: REREADING BENEDICT'S TWELFTH-CENTURY LITURGICAL SCRIPT

A canon of St. Peter's, cantor, and liturgist named Benedict composed an ordo, a liturgical scrip... more A canon of St. Peter's, cantor, and liturgist named Benedict composed an ordo, a liturgical script, ca. 1140–1143. Though long held as a vivid and accurate testimony to contemporary liturgy in Rome, it has more recently been dismissed as a compilation of older sources that reflects an antiquated form of worship. A comparison of the liturgy of the ordo with contemporary sources proves instead that Benedict was an accurate observer of the contemporary liturgy of Rome. When correctly understood, his ordo gives us new information about the pivotal role liturgy played in the papacy of Pope Innocent II (1130–1143). Benedict's ordo preserves some of Innocent II's newly crafted ceremonies, which were propaganda designed to solidify his hold on the papacy. This article further suggests the relevance of recent discussions about medieval ritual for the liturgy and the significance of the liturgy for medieval history.

Announcing the Station in Early-Medieval Rome

Ite potus est: Liturgical Parody and Views of Late-medieval Worship

The Fates of Liturgies: Towards a History of the First Roman Ordo

JULIAN OF VÉZELAY, A TWELFTH-CENTURY CRITIC OF HIS MONASTERY'S WORLDLY SUCCESS

Review of City of Saints

Review of Invention of Peter

Review of England and Rome in the Early Middle Ages

Review of The Virgin of Chartres

Basilica of St John Lateran [Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage]

Liturgy and Pilgrimage [Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage]

Liturgy & Society in the Early and High Middle Ages (The New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies 2016)

by Paweł Figurski and John F Romano

The session "Liturgy and Society in the Early and High Middle Ages" was meant to expand on the me... more The session "Liturgy and Society in the Early and High Middle Ages" was meant to expand on the methods of traditional research in liturgical studies, which often fail to take into account the influence of various aspects of Christian worship on the social, political and intellectual life of the period. Medieval liturgy can be understood not only as a language that allowed conversation with God through ritual but also as a means of communication between the ecclesiastical or civil rulers with his subordinates or even more horizontally between the different social groups which used it, especially clergy. The three speakers of this panel focused on particular usages of liturgy in political, social and intellectual contexts. Erik Ellis discussed the relationship between liturgical Latin and the language used in the seventh century Gaul, Paweł Figurski described symbolic language of authority expressed by Charles the Bald, and Pieter Byttebier dealt with the language of authority expressed in liturgy by and about bishops. The wide range both of possible consequences of liturgy as well as chronological scope (Merovingian, Carolingian, and Ottonian-Salian period) was meant to present liturgy as one of the most important phenomenon of the medieval world.