TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Jones, Claire Taylor
T1  - Negotiating liturgical obligations in late
medieval dominican convents
JF  - Church History
N2  - Liturgy has often served as a source for studying the identities of medieval religious
communities through examining local saints and special chants or ceremonies. This article
deepens such approaches by considering the practice of liturgical coordination, which
required each convent to reconcile the obligations imposed upon it by the order to
which it belonged, the diocese in which it lay, and the personal networks of its sisters.
The shifting dates of the Easter cycle created a wide variety of possible calendrical conflicts
and necessitated that each convent’s liturgical practice be organized anew every year.
Focusing on German-language liturgical manuals from Observant Dominican convents,
this article introduces these sources and examines the various obligations, authorities,
and sources of advice that Dominican sisters coordinated when planning each year’s
liturgy. It then turns to the concrete example of a major calendrical conflict on May 1,
1519, which illustrates how convents negotiated their networked obligations and defended
their decisions. Supplementing traditional sources such as chronicles and charters,
liturgical administrative documents reveal how each convent’s liturgical identity was
both iterative and networked and how the tensions between these features opened up
spaces for assertive decision-making.
KW  - Freiburg im Breisgau
KW  - Frauenkloster
KW  - Dominikanerinnen
KW  - Liturgie
KW  - Ordensreform
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:31-opus-197838
SN  - 1755-2613
SS  - 1755-2613
U6  - https://doi.org/10.57962/regionalia-19783
DO  - https://doi.org/10.57962/regionalia-19783
VL  - 91
SP  - 20
EP  - 40
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -