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Dear Christian,
While not specifically about erasure, (and you probably know this already) I
came across a reference in Archbishop Arno of Salzburg's 'pastoral
instruction' of 798-800 that (c.16) 'according to the ancient canons of the
early Fathers', anyone who has been excommunicated 'ab uniuersale synodo'
should not be received by anyone, 'Et si pertinax perseuerauerit et noluerit
conuerti ad unitatem ecclesiae, non post mortem memoria eius nec nomen
scriptum nec oblationes pro illo offerre in ecclesia catholica non debeant,
nec suas elymosinas recipere.' This is edited by Etaix in Revue Benedictine
91 (1981), 105-130.
James McCune.
Dept. of History,
King's College, London.
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Subject: Erasure from Libri Vitae and Necrologies
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Dear Members of the Medieval-Religion-List,
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Christian Jaser
> Humboldt-University Berlin
>
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