Blessing the World: Ritual and Lay Piety in Medieval Religion
ISBN: 9780813218281
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Catholic University of America Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Benediction; Liturgics -- History -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Piety -- History -- Middle Ages 600–1500;

In Blessing the World, 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.


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