medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
thank you for this list. very interesting.
On Mar 26, 2005, at 9:20 PM, Elena Lemeneva wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> If that's of interest: twelfth- through fourteenth-century liturgical
> calendars from the area I am dealing with (Styria, Steiermark - a
> mountainous province in Austria) ALWAYS have Good Friday and
> Annunciation concur - on the 25th of March. Which, naturally, could
> not have been the case every year. Researcher of most
> of Styrian calendars, Johannes Koeck, in his Handschriftlche Missalien
> in Steiermark (Graz-Vienna: Styria, 1916) p. 181, esp. ftn. 3.,
> argues moreover that these dates have nothing to do even with the
> Easter cycle of the year when these calendars were compiled.
>
>
> Honorius of Autun seems to have been the earliest author to underscore
> the temporal coincidence of the Annunciation and Jesus’s death on the
> cross:
Lambert of St. Omer in his Liber Floridus (ca. 1115) already lays out
the coincidences, starting with creation of man and the splitting of
the red sea... and in 1065 we have a pligrimage heading for Jerusalem
to be there on that day to witness the end of the world.
r
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