The Exultet in Southern Italy - Thomas Forrest Kelly

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The Exultet in Southern Italy

By: Thomas Forrest Kelly

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Hardcover | 1 February 2002

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The beautifully worked Exultet scrolls of southern Italy unite music, liturgical text, and image for use in a ceremonial blessing of the great Easter candle. Much was uncommon about this solemn rite, and from a perspective a millennium or so removed in time, the ritual and its magnificent documents appear unusual to the point of mystery. Why, for example, did it fall to the deacon and not his superior the bishop to conduct the Exultet ceremony? And why on many of the later surviving documents were the pictures turned upside-down in relation to the text? Finally, and most basically, why produce these documents at all? What does it mean to 'lavish such care and talent on manuscripts to be used but once a year?
Addressing these and other questions, The Exultet in Southern Italy provides a meticulous and uniquely comprehensive study of this fascinating early medieval phenomenon. Where previous treatments have tended to focus on the illustrations, this impressively researched volume looks at the Exultet in full, from the painstaking manufacture of the rolls to the melodic structure of the songs to specific features of the rite and its placement in the Easter vigil service. Offering a remarkable wealth of detail, the book pays equal attention to broad cultural and historical considerations, tracing in its subject a rich convergence of Byzantine, Roman, Lombard, and Norman influences while exploring the way changes in the ceremony reflect transformations in church organization and regional governance.

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"...a magisterial contribution, a synthesis the scope of which would daunt many scholars....The Exultet in Southern Italy succeeds handsomely in providing a much broader and more satisfying understanding of that distinctive liturgical book and, as well, offers a wealth of description, analysis, summary, primary source material, and cross-reference that will facilitate its fuller integration into medieval studies."--The Medieval Review "Kelly's wide-ranging study leaves few issues unexamined."--Notes "The author treats each of these topics in a careful, scholarly way and presents a clear vision of the composite nature of the Exultet rolls of southern Italy...All of this, along with a twenty-eight page bibliography, make this work a master study, bringing together the areas of scholarship which the author proposed."--Church History

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Introduction	p. 3
The Exultet and the Roll	p. 3
The Exultet in the Liturgy	p. 3
Illustration in Exultet Rolls	p. 4
The Exultet as a Mirror of Change	p. 6
Introduction to the Sources	p. 7
Special Character of the South Italian Exultet	p. 10
The Rotulus	p. 12
Early History	p. 13
The Medieval Rotulus: Ceremonial, Practical, and Decorative	p. 15
The Rotulus in the Liturgy	p. 20
The Texts	p. 30
Early History of the Exultet	p. 31
The Cursus in the Texts of the Beneventan and Franco-Roman Exultet	p. 44
Origin and Author of the Exultet	p. 50
The Beneventan Text of the Exultet	p. 53
The Franco-Roman Text of the Exultet	p. 59
The Franco-Roman Text of the Exultet in Southern Italy	p. 63
The Music	p. 79
The Context of the Beneventan Melody	p. 82
The Beneventan Melody of the Exultet	p. 88
Writing the Melody	p. 94
Melodic Decoration in Performance and Writing	p. 104
Other Melodies: The "Roman Melody" in Southern Italy	p. 114
The Pictures	p. 119
What Is in the Pictures?	p. 120
How Are the Pictures Arranged?	p. 122
Transmission of Illustrative Cycles	p. 125
The Liturgy	p. 134
The Exultet in the Beneventan Liturgy	p. 135
The Adoption of Franco-Roman Practice: Benevento and Montecassino	p. 143
The Ceremony of the Exultet: Some Details	p. 150
Making and Using Exultet Rolls	p. 169
The Scribes	p. 169
Scribe, Illustrator, and Notator: Practical Considerations in the Manufacture of a Roll	p. 170
New Rolls for Old	p. 184
Conclusion: The Purpose of Making Exultet Rolls	p. 191
Why Write Down the Music of the Exultet?	p. 191
Why the Deacon?	p. 192
Why Write the Exultet on a Scroll?	p. 194
Why Put Pictures on an Exultet Roll?	p. 199
Origins and Purposes	p. 206
The Sources	p. 212
The Rolls	p. 212
South Italian and Dalmatian Codices	p. 254
Central Italian Codices	p. 260
Editions of the South Italian Exultet	p. 263
The Beneventan Text of the Exultet	p. 264
The Franco-Roman Text of the Exultet in South Italy	p. 272
Early Versions of the Franco-Roman Text of the Exultet	p. 289
Texts Related to the South Italian Exultet	p. 303
References to Exultet Rolls	p. 303
References to the Ceremonial of the Exultet	p. 305
Bibliography	p. 313
Index of Manuscripts	p. 341
General Index	p. 346
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