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The Medieval Church · c. 840–842
On Liturgical Origins
Libellus de Exordiis
Walafrid Strabo · c. 808–849
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What it is
A historical rather than allegorical account of where churches, altars, bells, images, vestments, and the vernacular in worship actually came from.
Why it lasted
The first work of liturgical history, and a strikingly sober counterweight to Amalarius's allegory.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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