Author: L. van Tongeren
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Keywords: cross, liturgy, liturgia, condenda, medieval, meaning, origins, feast, exaltation
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $67.00
ISBN-10: 904290951X
ISBN-13: 9789042909519

The origin, development and spread of the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross is traced on the basis of liturgical sources, and through a careful examination of the liturgical textual material, the meaning of the feast is analyzed with respect to its content. Among the important points receiving attention in this analysis are the place, function and significance of the Cross relic, and the theology of the Cross, or the process whereby the understanding of the Cross was shaped, as that was invested in the feast. Middle Ages, and therefore has bearing on the period in the West in which a multif