‎Zachary Guiliano‎
‎Homiliary of Paul the Deacon. Religious and Cultural Reform in Carolingian Europe‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 339 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 3 col., 13 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9782503577913.‎

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‎Summary As one of the most widely used products of Charlemagne's religious and cultural reforms, the homiliary of Paul the Deacon is a unique monument in the history of Western Europe. Completed around AD 797, this collection of patristic homilies and sermons shaped the religious faith and liturgical practices of the churches in Carolingian Europe and those of countless other churches over the course of a millennium of use. Until now, scholarly study of the homiliary has rested on seven partial witnesses to the collection. This study, however, draws on over 80 newly identified witnesses from the Carolingian period, while providing a brief guide and handlist to hundreds of later manuscripts. It replaces the current scholarly reconstruction of the homiliary, discusses the significance of the collection's liturgical structure and provisions, and considers the composition of the homiliary in the context of Charlemagne's reforms and Paul's patron-client relationships. The study also brings together evidence for the production and use of this text in thirty-three Carolingian monasteries, cathedrals, and churches. The book then addresses the homiliary's theological character: the contents of the homiliary reflected a concern for expressing and defending orthodox doctrine at Charlemagne's court against Trinitarian and Christological heresies, as well as an urgent attention to moral reform in the light of a belief in the imminence of divine judgement. Finally, the study demonstrates the varied uses of Paul's collection and its historical legacy. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 0.1: The homiliary in scholarship: editions and reconstructions 0.2: The homiliary in scholarship: The nature of the Epistola Generalis 0.3: The homiliary in scholarship: The history of preaching 0.4: The homiliary in scholarship: Anglo-Saxon England 0.6: Manuscript identifications and the advent of digital research 0.7: The Carolingian witnesses to Paul's homiliary 0.8: Outline of the Book's Argument Chapter 1: Curae Nobis Est: The manuscript witnesses and Paul's text 1.1: The manuscript base 1.2: General features of the extant manuscripts 1.3: The witnesses transmitting the prefatory material and Carolingian witnesses 1.4: The original structure of PD: the winter volume 1.5: The winter volume: contested entries 1.6: The original structure of PD: the summer volume 1.7: Conclusion Chapter 2: Per totius anni circulum: Paul's liturgical year 2.1: 'Individual Sundays and the rest of the divine feasts' 2.2: The sanctoral cycle 2.3: The purpose of a limited sanctoral cycle 2.4: 'Diverse fasts' and other occasions 2.5: The greater and lesser litanies 2.6: In traditione symboli: Catechesis and creed in Lent 2.7: Anniversaries of death 2.8: The Sundays after Pentecost 2.9: Paul's work, the Christian year, and the influence of other liturgical books 2.10: A?specific liturgical year? (786-787 and 797-798) 2.11: Conclusion 2.12: Outline of the Winter?Volume: Advent to Holy Saturday 2.13: Outline of the Summer?Volume (A): Easter to Saint Matthew 2.14: Outline of the Summer?Volume (B): Commune sanctorum (The Common of Saints) Chapter 3: En iutus patris Benedicti: the composition of the homiliary 3.1: Paul's representation of his work in the preface 3:2: The dedicatory verse (Summo apici rerum) 3.3: The prefatory letter (Epistola Generalis) 3.4: The descriptive introduction (Incipiunt omeliae) 3.5: The homiliary's organisational features: Rubrics, readings, authors 3.6: The collection's contents: Homilies and sermons from surprising Fathers 3.7: The origins of Paul's texts: The state of Carolingian libraries 3.8: A?wandering monk? Paul on the road and in the scriptorium 3.9: Paul and patronage, earthly and heavenly 3.10: Dating Paul's collection: the late 790s Chapter 4: Per sacra domicilia Christi: the dissemination of the homiliary 4.1: The Epistola Generalis and dissemination 4.2: Capitulary legislation and the homiliary's dissemination 4.3: Manuscript production, the physical constraints on dissemination 4.4: Difficulties for 'mass production': The example of Tours, the setting of the court 4.5: Varied evidence for dissemination 4.6: Literary evidence 4.7: St?Wandrille and Benediktbeuern 4.8: St?Riquier 4.9: Lorsch 4.10: St?Gall 4.11: Reichenau 4.12: Bobbio 4.13: Passau 4.14: Monte Cassino 4.15: St?Calixtus 4.16: Fulda 4.17: Lyon 4.18: Weissenburg 4.19: Many inconclusive references, but 14 probable 4.20: Manuscript evidence (A): 22 clear palaeographical identifications, 12 unclear 4.21: Manuscript Evidence (B): Transmission of textual variants implies further copies 4.22: Textual variants in the summer volume 4.23: Textual variants in the winter volume 4.24: Paul's two volumes often circulated separately 4.25: Conclusion Chapter 5: Optima decerpens: the theology of Paul's selections 5.1: The emphases of the collection: Gospel exegesis, doctrinal sermons 5.2: The Bible in Paul's collection: texts and theory 5.3: The Admonitio Generalis and Carolingian theology 5.4: God the Trinity 5.5: Definitions of the Trinitarian relations 5.6: Christology and Chalcedon 5.7: Looser Christological formulations: Origen and 'Maximus?II' 5.8: Eschatology 5.9: Gregory the Great on the impending judgment 5.10: The resurrection of the dead: Flesh and hope 5.11: Eschatology in PD and the Admonitio Generalis 5.12: Ethics and imitation 5.13: Christian ethical practices: fasting, confession, almsgiving, care for the dead 5.14: Conclusion Chapter 6: Tradimus: The use of the homiliary 6.1: Crafting new collections 6.2: Amplified homiliaries (a): more of Paul's 'canon' of Fathers 6.3: Expanded homiliaries (b): more Augustine 6.4: Expanded homiliaries (c): new authors, new collections 6.5: Abbreviated homiliaries (a): one entry per occasion 6.6: Abbreviated homiliaries (b): special feast days only 6.7: Abbreviated homiliaries (c): Sundays only 6.8: Abbreviated homiliaries (d): saints only 6.9: Abbreviated homiliaries (e): sermons only 6.10: Extraction 6.11: Abbreviated readings 6.12: Decorated texts and the 'economy' of monasticism 6.13: Private study or meditation? 6.14: Dwellings and travel of intellectual elite in places PD was known 6.15: Study and annotation 6.16: Private study certain 6.17: Preaching and regulatory material (capitularies, councils, statutes, rules) 6.18: Preaching and the manuscript evidence 6.19: Liturgical reading 6.20: Liturgical reading and manuscript evidence 6.21: Other uses: storing prayers and community memory 6.22: Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1: Paul's dedicatory verse, Summo apici rerum Appendix 2: Charlemagne's prefatory letter, the Epistola generalis Appendix 3: the descriptive introduction, incipiunt omeliae Appendix 4: Paul's laudatory verse, Utere felix Appendix 5: Critical edition of crucial rubrics PD Appendix 6: The manuscript witnesses of Paul the Deacon's homiliary Bibliography Index of Manuscripts General Index‎