The Liber ordinarius of Nivelles (Houghton Library, MS Lat 422)

Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Herausgegeben von) is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture at Harvard University MA, USA.Eva Schlotheuber (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1959; Studium der Geschichte und Anthropologie in Göttingen; 1994 Promotion; 2003 Habilitation; seit 2010 Professorin für Mittelalterliche Geschichte an der HHU Düsseldorf.

• The ManuscriptJeffrey F. Hamburger: Description of the Liber ordinarius of Nivelles, Houghton Library, MS Lat 422 and the Date of its Decoration - Albert Derolez: Codicology and Paleography of the Nivelles Liber ordinariusThe ContextEva Schlotheuber: Pilgrims, the Poor, and the Powerful: The Long History of the Women of Nivelles - Walter Simons: Worlds Apart? Beguine Communities of Nivelles and the Abbey of St Gertrude, from Marie d'Oignies (d. 1213) to the Liber ordinarius (c. 1300) - Rowan Dorin: Order and Disorder: The Documentary Additions to the Liber ordinarius of NivellesThe CultBonnie Effros: Elizabeth de Bierbais and the Relics of Gertrude of Nivelles - Alison I. Beach: Placet nobis electio: The Election and Investiture of the Abbess at Fourteenth-Century Nivelles - Margot Fassler: Liturgical History and Hagiography as Reflected in the Ordinal of Nivelles, with Emphasis on the Cult of St GertrudeThe LiturgyLouis van Tongeren: Holy Week in Nivelles - Charles Caspers: On the Road: The Processions of the Nivelles' Canonesses and their Attitude towards the Outside World (c. 1350)The ArchitectureKlaus-Gereon Beuckers: The Abbey Church of St Gertrude in Nivelles: Observations regarding its Architectural Disposition - Andreas Odenthal: maiorem ecclesiam esse matrem omnium ecclesiarum totius villae: On the Sacral Topography of Nivelles based on the Liber ordinarius The Documents - Edition, Commentary, and TranslationVirginie Greene: The French of Nivelles: A Vernacular Legalese in the Making - Hannah Weaver: Note on the Language of the Documents Pertaining to the Abbey of Nivelles - Thomas Forrest Kelly: Personnel of the Church of Nivelles as seen in the Liber ordinarius - Eva Schlotheuber/Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Appendix. Editio princeps of the documents from the second half of the thirteenth century from the Liber Ordinarius of Nivelles