Ebook: Intercessory prayer and the monastic ideal in the time of the Carolingian reforms
Author: Choy Renie Shun-Man
- Tags: Intercessory prayer, Christianity., Monasticism and religious orders, Europe, History, Middle Ages 600-1500., Carolingians, Religion.
- Series: Oxford theology and religion monographs
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
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This work explores how monasteries fulfilled their particular duty of intercessory prayer in the early Middle Ages. Focusing on the period of Carolingian Church reform, it analyses spiritual goals to which Frankish monastic life aspired and considers how these found reflection in contemporary liturgical practice.
Abstract: This work explores how monasteries fulfilled their particular duty of intercessory prayer in the early Middle Ages. Focusing on the period of Carolingian Church reform, it analyses spiritual goals to which Frankish monastic life aspired and considers how these found reflection in contemporary liturgical practice