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Doctissimi,
as to Lambert of St. Omer:
You may know that there is an old tradition, going back to the Book of Jubilees and to the Targum Neophyti that there is a significant connection between the four great nights of the history of the world: the night of the Creation, the night of the Aqueda (the binding of Isaac), of the Crossing of the Red Sea and of the coming of the Messiah.
That is the events tied together by Lambert are not without a background, since many early Christians took over this idea from the intertestamental theological lore, and thought that the Aqeda is the prototype of the sacrifice of Christ, and the Resurrection is the beginning of the New Creation. This typology survived especially in Syriac environment, e.g. in the Cave of Treasures (early 6th c., but reflecting probably much earlier traditions, remaining standard doctrine at least until the Book of the Bee). The Christian typology clearly states a relation between the sacrifice of Isaac (the Aqeda) and that of Christ (to be seen e.g. in the Codex Rabbula). Not without appropiate scriptural references: these texts saw the connection established by the references in the night of the Nativity and in the "darkness over the land" (Mt 27:45; Mc 15:33, Lk 23:44) at the death of the Christ. (And between Adam's and Eve's expulsion form Eden, and their burial below the Golgotha - where the water from the side of Christ will baptise them, and thereby making them candidates for their redemption during the Harrowing of Hell in the Triduum.)
For a detailed analysis of the early developments in the liturgical calendar, and for the subtle, but telling developments I can not enter on now, see the recent dissertation by Ray, Walter Dean, August 15 and the development of the Jerusalem calendar, theol. diss. 2000, Notre Dame, UMI number: 9967315. I can recommend it to all those of you who are interested in complex but highly interesting analyses about far reaching liturgical issues.
George
G. Gereby
associate professor
Ancient and Mediaeval Philosophy Department, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
recurrent associate professor
Medieval Studies Dept.
Central European University
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thank you for this list. very interesting.
On Mar 26, 2005, at 9:20 PM, Elena Lemeneva wrote:
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> 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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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.
>
>
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