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.

Jerome's Abbreviated Psalter was the primary medium for lay people in the Middle Ages to imitate the monastic divine office. This edition presents the Middle En