medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
If you'll forgive a guess in the absence of knowledge, could those mystery
shapes on the top of the poles possibly be some kind of images that are
covered with a veil?
Stan Metheny
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From: "Christopher Crockett" <[log in to unmask]>
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From: Bill East <[log in to unmask]>
> ...the Palm Sunday Procession [at Canterbury].... At its head came the
banners carried by servants of the monastery.
any idea what these "banners" (_gu[/o]ntfanos_?) were, OO?
among the surviving pilgrims' badges from Chartres
http://ariadne.org/cc/badges/newbadges.html
is at least one which depicts a procession in which a cult statue of the V &
C
is being carried on a bier, with two accompanying figures carrying what for
all the world look like long handled spades but which are likely something
else
http://ariadne.org/cc/badges/forgeais/forgeais4_115.jpg
umbrellas or parasols is what first occured to me (i've seen pictures of
Thibetan processions with guys carrying parasols), but some sort of banner
might be possible, given the truely wretched state of the "style" of this
kind
of folk art depiction and the common modren tradition of carrying banners in
processions.
there was, at Chartres, an officer of the chapter styled (i believe)
_vexillifer_ who appears quite rarely in the documents and never in any
context which makes it clear what his duties are, beyond the obvious one.
are such "banners" and their carriers a common feature in the liturgical
documents describing processions, pre-1300?
any further thoughts you liturgists might have on what's being depicted on
those Chartres badges would certainly be welcome to the liturgically
challenged on this list.
best from here,
christopher
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