The Markyate Project: An Anglican response to logoclasm

Abstract

Even as pre-Reformation images have been carefully and lovingly restored in parish churches in England, the liturgical poetry that informed and inspired those images has languished or remained obscure, as the province of specialists and scholars. The rich body of pre-Reformation hymnody and liturgical poetry—much of which has its roots in sixth- and seventh-century texts—deserves to be a source of prayer, reflection, and theological inspiration for all Christians. The Anglican world is especially well-suited to offering fresh translations and mediating increased access to pre-Reformation poetry.