This chapter examines the use of marriage symbolism to explain the meaning
of the different liturgical seasons, ritual, and liturgical observances of
the high medieval Divine Office. From the glosses on the liturgy of Amalar
of Metz onwards, monks and clergy wrote treatises interpreting their
practice of the liturgy. Salvadó traces glosses, such as those of Honorius
of Autun and Innocent III, to disclose the liturgical seasons and areas of
praxis where marriage symbolism is most prevalent. This discussion is
contextualized by reference to liturgical praxis and the liturgy of marriage
as witnessed in contemporary sources.
