The<i>Rituale:</i>the Evolution of a New Liturgical Book
Sarah Hamilton
Odo of Sully, Bishop Paris (1200-8), decreed in his statutes that each parish priest within diocese should have a book called manuale , which contain the ordo service for extreme unction, catechism, baptism, and everyday things. His prescription is earliest mention episcopal legislation one particular dedicated to liturgy all services associated with pastoral care. But codices concerned sacerdotal rites cura anitnarum history goes back late ninth tenth centuries. These early ritualia were often combined monastic collectar, as mid-tenth-century Durham Collectar . There are also some examples from eleventh centuries made secular clergy. Sully was thus providing powerful support an existing practice rather than instituting new form book. This paper investigates further context these ‘parish’ rituals compiled, beginning Carolingian background.
Studies in Church History