medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Friday, August 4, 2006, at 6:14 pm, John Briggs wrote:
> John Dillon wrote:
> > On Friday, August 4, 2006, at 5:16 pm, John Briggs wrote:
> >> Jim Bugslag wrote:
> >>>
> >>> There is a good chapter on the feast of the Transfiguration in
> R.W.>>> Pfaff, New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England, pp.
> 12-39.
> >>> Calixtus's official promulgation of the feast in, as Pfaff says,
> >>> 1457 only formalized long-standing custom. The eastern church
> >>> celebrated the Transfiguration on or around 6 Aug. from the
> early
> >>> Middle Ages, perhaps as early as the 4th century.
> >>
> >> The memo doesn't seem to have reached Hereford :-)
> >
> > Possibly it got stuck at Naples, whose early ninth-century Marble
> > Calendar shows that by then the Transfiguration was being celebrated
> > there on 6. August.
>
> Well, no - this is the 1457 memo, which reached Salisbury in 1487,
> but
> hadn't made it to Hereford by 1502.
Well, yes -- the suggestion was that perhaps the 1457 memo (part of the
fiction being that "the memo" implies that there was but one copy) got
stuck at Naples because it wasn't seen as real news, the feast in
question having long since been celebrated there on this day.
Best again,
John Dillon
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