Research Catalog

Title

Memory and community in medieval southern Italy : the history, chapter book, and necrology of Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca / Charles Hilken.

Author

Hilken, Charles, 1955-

Publication

Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
• Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Vat. Lat. 5949.

Description

x, 320 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

"At the center of this work are an edition and study of the necrology of the monastery of Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus latinus 5949, fols. 232r 248v). In active use for three centuries, the necrology is a remarkable mirror of monastic life. The study of the necrology is placed in the contexts of the chapter book that preserves it and the monastery that produced it. Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca was a Benedictine priory, and then abbey, directly dependent upon the papacy. Its history and that of its chapter book are part of the history of the Benedictines and their liturgy in the Beneventan cultural zone in the High Middle Ages." "A history of the abbey and a survey of the chapter book and its contents are followed by a detailed study and edition of the necrology. A complete record of deaths from the foundation of the priory to its decline, it provides a rare glimpse into the customs of remembrance over the 300 years of the monastery's existence. Its value is increased as a history of the inner life of the monastery, especially with regard to the existence of clerical and monastic offices." "The three principal appendices survey the land holdings of Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca, provide a detailed comparison of the Gualdo Mazzocca and Santa Sofia martyrologies, and study the capitular lessons of Gualdo Mazzocca and other closely related collections. The volume concludes with a register of place-names, biographical notes, an index of personal names in the necrology, a map, and general index." "This study of Gualdo Mazzocca and Vat. lat. 5949 is the first in English and the first to provide an edition of the necrology."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Studies and texts, 0082-5328 ; 157

Uniform Title

Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) 157.

Alternative Title

• History, chapter book, and necrology of Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca
• Necrology of Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca

Subject

• Monastero di S. Maria de Gualdo (Mazzocca, Italy) > History
• Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
• Benedictines > Italy > Benevento Region > Necrology
• Benedictines > Italy > Benevento Region > History
• Necrologies

Genre/Form

• History
• Obituaries
• History.
• Obituaries.

Note

• Includes the text of the necrology, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus latinus 5949.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-308) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The history of Santa Maria del Gualdo azzocca -- The chapter book of Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca -- A study of the Necrology -- Necrologivm sanctae mariae de Gvaldo Mazzocca -- Vatican city, biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, codex vaticanus latinus 5949, fols. 232-248 -- Appendix A: The holdings of Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca -- Appendix B: Comparison of Gualdo Mazzocca and Santa Sofia Martyrologies -- Appendix C: Capitular lesson collections.

ISBN

• 9780888441577
• 0888441576

OCLC

• 182040262
• SCSB-11329380

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library