I have written a few times about The Book of Hildebald, also known as Cologne MS 106 (here and here). As many of you know by now, the archive in Cologne Germany collapsed this week to a level equal to intentional destruction (see here for more information). Hopefully archivists around the world are taking a [...]
Archive for the ‘Distilled Prayer’ Category
21 Apr
Distilled Prayer Project moves…
My Distilled Prayer project has officially moved over to my new blog on the psalms and devotional materials. Here is the new url for the project: http://psalterstudies.wordpress.com/distilled-prayer-project/
All of the posts originally put on Heavenfield are still here. The main page has moved. I hope I see some of you over on the new blog occasionally…
12 Apr
Transitions
It seems as though I’m going through a whole series of transitions at the moment and this blog is no exception. Inspired by Derek the Ænglican I’ve started a second blog to include all of my late medieval to modern church history, spirituality, and liturgical posts. My new blog is called Selah and it [...]
12 Mar
Hours of Prayer
Sunday someone asked me how many times a day medieval people prayed and I said 7 or 8. I realized that I’m a little fuzzy on what the canonical hours are, their names and what they have been transformed into today. So, this is going to be a short-hand version I hope will be helpful [...]
4 Mar
Bead and Book
As Eamon Duffy wrote in his recent book Marking the Hours, the late middle ages were an age of bead and book. It was not a choice of either/or. On the eve of the Reformation both Books of Hours and Paternoster beads were found at all levels of society. In wills prayer beads and [...]
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