medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Apr 1, 2009, at 8:59 PM, John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> Today (1. April) is the feast day of:
>
> 5) Hugh of Grenoble (d. 1132). H. was a canon of Valence of
> reforming temperament who when still a young man was elected bishop
> of Grenoble. Disdaining as a simoniac the then archbishop of
> Vienne, H. chose instead to be consecrated at Rome by pope St.
> Gregory VII. Intermittently successful at reforming his diocese,
> he twice tried monastic life instead, first as a Cluniac at La
> Chaise-Dieu and later with St. Bruno at the Grand Chartreuse, in
> whose foundation H. had assisted as the local bishop. On the first
> occasion he was recalled by Gregory and on the second Bruno told
> him that he really should return to his diocese. At least, that's
> how prior Guigo I of the Grand Chartreuse relates these events in
> his Vita of H. (BHL 4016), an important document for early
> Carthusian history.
>
> Grenoble's église de Saint-Hugues is an essentially thirteenth-
> century church on a twelfth-century base, adjacent to the cathedral
> of Notre-Dame.
A linen alb and amice, and a silk stole and maniple, attributed to
St. Hugo survive at La Valsainte in excellent condition. The alb is
decorated with whitework and silk embroidery at the neckline,
placket, cuffs, and underarms. It is cut with extremely wide side
gores which are tightly gathered at the top (they begin at about hip
level) with an unusual form of gathering that forms a raised
decorative pattern of diamonds and chevrons (it is not smocking).
Thanks to a colleague, I now own a copy of this alb with simplified
embroidery but the same cut and construction.
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O Chris Laning <[log in to unmask]> - Davis, California
+ http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com
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