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From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>
> What do people think of Derek Keene's suggestion of a 'processional
landscape' in the suburbs and countryside around Winchester? ....The only
firm evidence seems to be for the Palm Sunday procession, whereby the combined
communities of the Old and New Minsters processed to the church of St James in
the suburbs outside the West Gate of Winchester (presumably for the blessing
of the palms). I find that surprising enough in itself, but it seems to be
documented in a dispute in 1114, over who did what and when, after the New
Minster had moved to Hyde outside the North Walls. But I would be reluctant
to draw any wider conclusions, or attribute other processions to an early date
- the only wide-ranging processions at Salisbury were the Rogation Day
processions.
i know less than nothing about Winchester, John, but processions at Chartres
will be one of the many liturgical topics discussed by Margot Fassler in her
forthcomming book on Chartres, from the bibliogrphy of which i find these
items which might be of interest to you, should you not have seen them (the
Craig Wright piece is esp. recommended) :
Alan E. Knight, "Processional Theatre and the Rituals of Social Unity in
Lille.” In _Drama and Community: People and Plays in Medieval Europe_, ed.
Alan Hindley. Turnhout, 1999.
Roger Reynolds, "The Drama of Medieval Liturgical Processions." Revue de
musicology (2000), 86:127-42.
Craig Wright, "The Palm Sunday Procession in Medieval Chartres." In
Margot E. Fassler and Rebecca A. Baltzer, eds. _The Divine Office in the Latin
Middle Ages: Methodology and Source Studies, Regional Developments,
Hagiography_ (Oxford UP, 2000), 344-71.
Rodolph Yanney, "The Procession of Palm Sunday in the Bible and the Liturgy."
Coptic Church Review (1983), 4:18-23.
best,
c
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