Book of Donmon Teith

The Divine Office--the cycle of daily worship other than the Mass--is the richest source of liturgical texts and music from the Latin Middle Ages. However, its

The Divine Office, or the cycle of daily worship services other than the Mass, constitutes a body of liturgical texts and music for medieval studies. This is a

In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the

First full-scale survey and examination of liturgical practice and its fundamental changes over four centuries.

William Durand (c. 1230-Nov. 1, 1296), Bishop of Mende, France, was unquestionably the most renowned liturgical scholar of the later Middle Ages. His encycloped