<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> Liturgy and literature have had a complex historical relationship. This applies equally to theculture of the Middle Ages, so heavily influenced by Christianity,as well as to the modern era. This book studies exemplary cases from a range of disciplines (linguistics, literary studies, history, philosophy, and theology) to illuminate overlap and disjunction between the two domains. It thus explores a long-neglected field of study.