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Dear Christian,
Off the top of my head, the example that leaps to mind is the erasure of the abbot-bishop Virgil from the list of living members in the Salzburg LV. He was, of course, added to the list of the dead. His successor Arno's name replaced his at the top of the living list. In my study of the earliest LV, I have encountered examples of erasure only rarely; I suspect this is because in most instances the names were rarely if ever read aloud and in most cases all but the most recent or prominent lost association with the people they represented.
I too work on the LV and would be very interested to hear what you turn up.
Best,
Julian
On Jan 27 2006, Christian Jaser wrote:
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>Dear Members of the Medieval-Religion-List,
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>currently I am working through the well-eastablished German research on
>early medieval libri vitae and necrologies in order to find some cases of
>intentional erasure from the correspondent name-lists. Unfortunately, the
>reading of the Prologomena of the MGH-editions and of secondary texts on
>medieval memoria doesn't prove satisfactory regarding the potentiality of
>erasure. In contrast, we have some indications that the erasure of
>dishonourable persons written on diptychs was practised in late antiquity.
>I would like to ask you therefore if you know of any cases that erasure
>from libri vitae and necrologies happened intentionally (I am not
>interested in simple updating and emendation of scribal faults).
>Particularly, I would be happy to hear about such cases in French and
>English libri vitae and necrologies, and if there would be some link to an
>excommunicated person, so much the better. So far as I see, the Durham
>Liber vitae doesn't show erasures, but maybe there is some other evidence
>for the phenonemon of erasure. Furthermore, if you know of some secondary
>texts on that subject, let me know it.
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>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Christian Jaser
>Humboldt-University Berlin
>
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Julian Hendrix
King's College
Cambridge CB2 1ST
UK
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