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This volume covers two closely related themes. Essays in the first section deal with the varieties of clerics and their hierarchical arrangements in the churches of western Europe in the early Middle Ages, the formative period in which the ordering of clerics in the Western Church evolved. The number and numbering of clerics was debated and then established, as was their status as minor and sacred orders. In one of several hitherto unpublished pieces in this collection the significance of the elevation of the subdeacon to a sacred order in the later 11th century is examined, together with its effect on the status of the highest grades of priest and bishop, often seen to be one in order but distinct in office. In the second section, visual depictions of clerics in early medieval manuscripts are shown to have reflected their hierarchical ordering, especially in their ordinations, in the vestments and symbols assigned them, and in their functioning at conciliar gatherings.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- I Clerics in the Early Middle Ages: Hierarchies and Functions First Publication
- II Christ as Cleric: The Ordinals of Christ First Publication
- III "At Sixes and Sevens" - and Eights and Nines: The Sacred Mathematics of Sacred Orders in the Early Middle Ages Speculum 54, no. 4. Cambridge, Mass., 1979
- IV The Subdiaconate as a Sacred and Superior Order First Publication
- V Patristic "Presbyterianism" in the Early Medieval Theology of Sacred Orders Mediaeval Studies 45. Toronto, 1983
- VI Clerical Liturgical Vestments and Liturgical Colors in the Middle Ages First Publication
- VII The Portrait of the Ecclesiastical Officers in the Raganaldus Sacramentary and its Liturgico-Canonical Significance Speculum 46, no. 3. Cambridge, Mass., 1971
- VIII Image and Text: The Liturgy of Clerical Ordination in Early Medieval Art Gesta 22, no. 1. New York, 1983
- IX Rites and Signs of Conciliar Decisions in the Early Middle Ages Segni e Riti nella Chiesa Altomedievale occidentale, XXXIII Settimane di Studio del Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, Spoleto, 11-17 Aprile 1985. Spoleto, 1987
- Addenda and Corrigenda
- General Index
- Index of Manuscripts