medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Quoting Christopher Crockett:
>just curious: does "stational liturgies" refer to liturgical processions
>which might have been made to various sights around a city on given days
>in the calendar?
The short answer is yes, but the term is used a bit more specifically than
that. Not all liturgical processions qualify as stational
liturgies. According to John Baldovin, a real stational liturgy has four
characteristics:
- it takes place under the leadership of the bishop of the city in
question. Baldovin's book focuses on Rome, Jerusalem, and Constantinople,
but other cities had stational systems too; perhaps your work in Chartres
is uncovering some of that material.
- it is mobile, which is to say that it takes place in different churches
on different festival days.
- the choice of church depends on the feast or fast being celebrated. So,
e.g., on the feast of Ss. Cosmas and Damian, it's to their church you go.
- it must be the primary urban liturgical celebration of the day.
In Rome, at least, there was usually a procession to the stational church
from a "collect", which is to say a plaza where the congregation
met. Instructions for this procession can be found among the Ordines
Romani, which were gathered and edited in the 1950's by Michel Andrieu but
which have received scant attention in the scholarly literature since then.
>such topographical processions were a common practice, apparently --i've
>got quite a few of them mentioned in the Chartres Ordinary and would like
>to know something more about them.
Baldovin and Martimort may not call them stational but I'm sure they're
worth paying attention to nonetheless. :) Let me know if you encounter
anything really unusual. I'm interested.
Ayse Tuzlak
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