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dc.contributor.advisorLuxford, Julian
dc.contributor.authorSchell, Sarah
dc.coverage.spatial330en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-12T15:43:07Z
dc.date.available2011-12-12T15:43:07Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifieruk.bl.ethos.552612
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/2107
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the illustrations that appear at the Office of the Dead in English Books of Hours, and seeks to understand how text and image work together in this thriving culture of commemoration to say something about how the English understood and thought about death in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Office of the Dead would have been one of the most familiar liturgical rituals in the medieval period, and was recited almost without ceasing at family funerals, gild commemorations, yearly minds, and chantry chapel services. The Placebo and Dirige were texts that many people knew through this constant exposure, and would have been more widely known than other 'death' texts such as the Ars Moriendi. The images that are found in these books reflect wider trends in the piety and devotional practice of the time. The first half of the study discusses the images that appear in these horae, and the relationship between the text and image is explored. The funeral or vigil scene, as the most commonly occurring, is discussed with reference to contemporary funeral practices, and ways of reading a Book of Hours. Other iconographic themes that appear in the Office of the Dead, such as the Roman de Renart, the Pety Job, the Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead, the story of Lazarus, and the life of Job, are also discussed. The second part of the thesis investigates the musical elaborations of the Office of the Dead as found in English prayer books. The Office of the Dead had a close relationship with music, which is demonstrated through an examination of the popularity of musical funerals and obits, as well as in the occurrence of musical notation for the Office in a book often used by the musically illiterate. The development of the Office of the Dead in conjunction with the development of the Books of Hours is also considered, and places the traditions and ideas that were part of the funeral process in medieval England in a larger historical context.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectMedievalen_US
dc.subjectArt historyen_US
dc.subjectIlluminationen_US
dc.subjectBooks of hoursen_US
dc.subjectPsaltersen_US
dc.subjectEnglanden_US
dc.subjectCatholicismen_US
dc.subjectLay pietyen_US
dc.subjectLiteracyen_US
dc.subjectMusicen_US
dc.subjectDeathen_US
dc.subjectCommemorative practicesen_US
dc.subjectTombsen_US
dc.subjectMemorialsen_US
dc.subjectDeath ritualen_US
dc.subjectBurial practicesen_US
dc.subject.lccND3363.S3
dc.subject.lcshIllumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Englanden_US
dc.subject.lcshCatholic Church. Officium pro defunctisen_US
dc.subject.lcshBooks of hours--Englanden_US
dc.subject.lcshDeath in arten_US
dc.subject.lcshCatholic Church--Liturgy--Illustrationsen_US
dc.subject.lcshDeath--England--History--To 1500en_US
dc.subject.lcshFuneral music--England--History--To 1500en_US
dc.titleThe Office of the Dead in England : image and music in the Book of Hours and related texts, c. 1250-c. 1500en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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